Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ç | xɣ | ʁ | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | ø̞ | · | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 200 transcribed dictionary entries (771 total tokens)
/n/
151 (19.6%)
/t/
86 (11.2%)
/r/
71 (9.2%)
/ɛ/
63 (8.2%)
/l/
46 (6%)
/s/
38 (4.9%)
/k/
36 (4.7%)
/f/
34 (4.4%)
/v/
32 (4.2%)
/i/
30 (3.9%)
/d/
24 (3.1%)
/m/
20 (2.6%)
/x/
19 (2.5%)
/e/
18 (2.3%)
/b/
18 (2.3%)
/o/
16 (2.1%)
/ɣ/
16 (2.1%)
/z/
13 (1.7%)
/p/
10 (1.3%)
/u/
9 (1.2%)
/j/
7 (0.9%)
/h/
7 (0.9%)
/y/
3 (0.4%)
/ç/
2 (0.3%)
/ɑ/
1 (0.1%)
/g/
1 (0.1%)