Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | td | · | · | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | z | ʃʒ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | ɤo |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 57 transcribed dictionary entries (223 total tokens)
/a/
26 (11.7%)
/u/
22 (9.9%)
/r/
20 (9%)
/i/
16 (7.2%)
/z/
14 (6.3%)
/k/
14 (6.3%)
/o/
11 (4.9%)
/n/
10 (4.5%)
/m/
9 (4%)
/t/
9 (4%)
/g/
9 (4%)
/l/
8 (3.6%)
/e/
8 (3.6%)
/ɹ/
7 (3.1%)
/b/
6 (2.7%)
/ɤ/
6 (2.7%)
/v/
5 (2.2%)
/j/
5 (2.2%)
/h/
4 (1.8%)
/ø/
4 (1.8%)
/d/
4 (1.8%)
/ʔ/
3 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
2 (0.9%)
/w/
1 (0.4%)