Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
12 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | · | · | · | k | · | ||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | v | ð | · | ʃ | · | xɣ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ʏ | · | · |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | ä | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/ɣ/ → [x] / _C /h/ → [xʰ] / _# /h/ → [xʰ] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 310 transcribed dictionary entries (1,171 total tokens)
/ä/
121 (10.3%)
/i/
95 (8.1%)
/k/
85 (7.3%)
/ɛ/
84 (7.2%)
/u/
79 (6.7%)
/n̪/
65 (5.6%)
/ɔ/
61 (5.2%)
/t̪/
61 (5.2%)
/l̪/
52 (4.4%)
/b/
52 (4.4%)
/ɾ/
47 (4%)
/s̪/
43 (3.7%)
/ɛi/
41 (3.5%)
/p/
39 (3.3%)
/v/
38 (3.2%)
/ð/
32 (2.7%)
/ʏ/
31 (2.6%)
/j/
31 (2.6%)
/ʃ/
31 (2.6%)
/d̪/
29 (2.5%)
/w/
28 (2.4%)
/ɣ/
16 (1.4%)
/h/
10 (0.9%)