Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

20 consonants
8 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
kɡ
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
·
r
·
·
·
Tap/Flap
·
·
·
ɾ
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θ
sz
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
ɹ
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
ɨ
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Mid·
ə
·
Near-open
æ
··
Open
a
··

Phonological Rules

•/t/ = /tʰ/ alway
•/p/ = /pʰ/ alway
•Letter R r can be /r/ or /ɾ/
•Letter r when it after vowels it will change to /ɹ/
• er = /æɹ/
•This language can spell syllabic-constant like 'Hevn' > [HE-vn] , 'Hovd' > [HO(V)-vd] , etc.

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 220 transcribed dictionary entries (666 total tokens)

/a/
54 (8.1%)
/n/
52 (7.8%)
/t/
48 (7.2%)
/i/
46 (6.9%)
/l/
42 (6.3%)
/s/
41 (6.2%)
/æ/
41 (6.2%)
/u/
40 (6%)
/d/
40 (6%)
/w/
32 (4.8%)
/o/
31 (4.7%)
/h/
27 (4.1%)
/r/
27 (4.1%)
/k/
26 (3.9%)
/θ/
24 (3.6%)
/m/
21 (3.2%)
/f/
18 (2.7%)
/b/
13 (2%)
/p/
12 (1.8%)
/j/
10 (1.5%)
/ɨj/
10 (1.5%)
/v/
9 (1.4%)
/ɡ/
2 (0.3%)