Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

7 consonants
7 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialAlveolarVelarPharyngealGlottal
Plosive
·
·
·
·
ʔ
Nasal
m
n
ŋ
·
·
Trill
ʙ
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
·
·
ħ
h

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
ɨ
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open
a
·
ɑ

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 200 transcribed dictionary entries (887 total tokens)

/m/
171 (19.3%)
/ŋ/
161 (18.2%)
/n/
133 (15%)
/a/
81 (9.1%)
/ħ/
65 (7.3%)
/e/
58 (6.5%)
/ɨ/
55 (6.2%)
/u/
52 (5.9%)
/o/
33 (3.7%)
/ʘ/
25 (2.8%)
/ʙ/
22 (2.5%)
/i/
17 (1.9%)
/h/
13 (1.5%)
/ɑ/
1 (0.1%)