Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

20 consonants
10 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPalatalVelarPharyngeal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
kg
ʡ
Nasal
m
·
n
·
ŋ
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
·
xɣ
·
Approximant
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Near-close
ɪ
··
Close-mid··
o
Mid·
ə
·
Open-mid
ɛœ
·
ʌ
Near-open
æ
··

Syllable Structure

(C)V(C)

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 36 transcribed dictionary entries (172 total tokens)

/æ/
17 (9.9%)
/ɛ/
11 (6.4%)
/u/
10 (5.8%)
/ə/
9 (5.2%)
/s/
9 (5.2%)
/t/
8 (4.7%)
/d/
7 (4.1%)
/ʌ/
7 (4.1%)
/n/
7 (4.1%)
/ɪ/
6 (3.5%)
/æ̹/
6 (3.5%)
/v/
5 (2.9%)
/r/
5 (2.9%)
/ʡ/
5 (2.9%)
/m/
5 (2.9%)
//
5 (2.9%)
/o/
4 (2.3%)
/x/
4 (2.3%)
/i/
4 (2.3%)
/g/
4 (2.3%)
/b/
4 (2.3%)
/k/
4 (2.3%)
//
3 (1.7%)
/œ/
3 (1.7%)
/l/
3 (1.7%)
//
3 (1.7%)
//
2 (1.2%)
/y/
2 (1.2%)
/z/
2 (1.2%)
/j/
2 (1.2%)