Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | k | ɢ | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | ʝ | · | · | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)CV(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 209 transcribed dictionary entries (832 total tokens)
/æ/
99 (11.9%)
/a/
90 (10.8%)
/o/
68 (8.2%)
/r/
65 (7.8%)
/n/
55 (6.6%)
/u/
50 (6%)
/i/
47 (5.6%)
/t/
45 (5.4%)
/s/
39 (4.7%)
/m/
37 (4.4%)
/ʝ/
36 (4.3%)
/l/
32 (3.8%)
/k/
31 (3.7%)
/d/
27 (3.2%)
/b/
20 (2.4%)
/v/
19 (2.3%)
/ʃ/
17 (2%)
/p/
15 (1.8%)
/f/
14 (1.7%)
/ɢ/
12 (1.4%)
/kʋ/
6 (0.7%)
/h/
4 (0.5%)
/z/
4 (0.5%)