Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | d | · | ʈ | · | kg | · | · | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ɲ | · | · | · | ||||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | ð | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | · | ʁ | h | ||||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/s/ → [z] / #_e
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 192 transcribed dictionary entries (1,026 total tokens)
/ə/
97 (9.5%)
/i/
85 (8.3%)
/a/
80 (7.8%)
/ʁ/
79 (7.7%)
/s/
79 (7.7%)
/o/
76 (7.4%)
/ʈ/
70 (6.8%)
/n/
54 (5.3%)
/k/
50 (4.9%)
/l/
48 (4.7%)
/u/
45 (4.4%)
/m/
42 (4.1%)
/d/
31 (3%)
/p/
26 (2.5%)
/ɛː/
25 (2.4%)
/ʃ/
20 (1.9%)
/b/
19 (1.9%)
/y/
18 (1.8%)
/v/
15 (1.5%)
/g/
12 (1.2%)
/e/
12 (1.2%)
/f/
12 (1.2%)
/h/
11 (1.1%)
/œ/
5 (0.5%)
/ks/
5 (0.5%)
/ʒ/
4 (0.4%)
/j/
2 (0.2%)
/z/
1 (0.1%)
/w/
1 (0.1%)
/ð/
1 (0.1%)