Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
12 consonants
2 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | · | k | q | ʔ | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ | ʍ | · | h | ||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Near-close | ʏ | · | · |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C/V)(C/V)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 64 transcribed dictionary entries (272 total tokens)
/ə/
59 (21.7%)
/t/
42 (15.4%)
/ʏ/
38 (14%)
/k/
24 (8.8%)
/ɸ/
22 (8.1%)
/p/
21 (7.7%)
/s/
21 (7.7%)
/ɬ/
19 (7%)
/q/
8 (2.9%)
/h/
6 (2.2%)
/x/
5 (1.8%)
/ʔ/
5 (1.8%)
/ʍ/
2 (0.7%)