Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
14 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | |||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ŋ | |||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | · | · | |||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phonological Rules
/n/ → [ŋ] \ _k
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 430 transcribed dictionary entries (2,109 total tokens)
/a/
309 (14.7%)
/ɪ/
239 (11.3%)
/n/
206 (9.8%)
/o/
179 (8.5%)
/ɛ/
170 (8.1%)
/s/
128 (6.1%)
/l/
126 (6%)
/u/
124 (5.9%)
/m/
94 (4.5%)
/k/
90 (4.3%)
/t/
77 (3.7%)
/b/
72 (3.4%)
/d/
72 (3.4%)
/j/
62 (2.9%)
/w/
51 (2.4%)
/f/
39 (1.8%)
/g/
37 (1.8%)
/p/
34 (1.6%)