Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
15 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | k | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | ɱ | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | f | sz | ʃ | x | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 57 transcribed dictionary entries (263 total tokens)
/a/
31 (11.8%)
/t/
24 (9.1%)
/n/
21 (8%)
/u/
20 (7.6%)
/ʃ/
20 (7.6%)
/i/
19 (7.2%)
/f/
18 (6.8%)
/m/
16 (6.1%)
/e/
15 (5.7%)
/r/
14 (5.3%)
/x/
12 (4.6%)
/k/
11 (4.2%)
/l/
10 (3.8%)
/s/
7 (2.7%)
/w/
6 (2.3%)
/p/
6 (2.3%)
/æ/
5 (1.9%)
/o/
4 (1.5%)
/z/
3 (1.1%)
/ɱʃ/
1 (0.4%)