Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ʔ | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | χ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 29 transcribed dictionary entries (180 total tokens)
/a/
30 (16.7%)
/o/
18 (10%)
/t/
14 (7.8%)
/e/
13 (7.2%)
/i/
13 (7.2%)
/u/
13 (7.2%)
/m/
8 (4.4%)
/ʃ/
7 (3.9%)
/k/
6 (3.3%)
/d/
6 (3.3%)
/ʒ/
6 (3.3%)
/p/
6 (3.3%)
/n/
5 (2.8%)
/ŋ/
4 (2.2%)
/s/
4 (2.2%)
/g/
4 (2.2%)
/pʰ/
3 (1.7%)
/b/
3 (1.7%)
/f/
3 (1.7%)
/χ/
2 (1.1%)
/θ/
2 (1.1%)
/r/
2 (1.1%)
/v/
2 (1.1%)
/ʔ/
2 (1.1%)
/h/
1 (0.6%)
/w/
1 (0.6%)
/tʰ/
1 (0.6%)
/z/
1 (0.6%)