Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
4 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | t | · | k | q | |||||
| Nasal | · | n | · | ŋ | · | |||||
| Trill | · | r | · | · | ʀ | |||||
| Fricative | fv | sz | ʃʒ | xɣ | χʁ | |||||
| Lateral fricative | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)CV(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/q/ → [k] / __i
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 238 transcribed dictionary entries (1,120 total tokens)
/a/
104 (9.3%)
/s/
93 (8.3%)
/ʃ/
71 (6.3%)
/aː/
69 (6.2%)
/n/
63 (5.6%)
/iː/
62 (5.5%)
/l/
58 (5.2%)
/u/
57 (5.1%)
/i/
56 (5%)
/ɔ/
53 (4.7%)
/v/
51 (4.6%)
/t/
45 (4%)
/k/
40 (3.6%)
/ɣ/
33 (2.9%)
/ʁ/
30 (2.7%)
/q/
28 (2.5%)
/ɔː/
28 (2.5%)
/x/
26 (2.3%)
/r/
25 (2.2%)
/χ/
23 (2.1%)
/uː/
23 (2.1%)
/f/
22 (2%)
/ɬ/
14 (1.3%)
/z/
14 (1.3%)
/ŋ/
13 (1.2%)
/ɮ/
10 (0.9%)
/ʒ/
6 (0.5%)
/ʀ/
3 (0.3%)