Phonological Analysis IIIa: Frequency of phoneme occurance in
Rob Zook 
Thu, 06 Nov 1997 10:49:22 -0600

Hi all,

I finished writing the phoneme counting program, and have the some
preliminary results:

The program counted 1098 phonemes total.

Vowels:
 i= 80 %=0,07    e= 57 %=0,05    ^=  0 %=0,00    a=177 %=0,16 
 o= 44 %=0,04    u= 22 %=0,02   ii=  3 %=0,07   ee=  2 %=0,05   
^^=  0 %=0,00   aa= 19 %=0,16   oo=  0 %=0,04   uu=  1 %=0,02   
e~=  0 %=0,09   o~=  0 %=0,02   a~=  0 %=0,00

Consonents:
 '=104 %=0,09    p= 17 %=0,02    b=  4 %=0,00    f=  7 %=0,01
 v= 15 %=0,01    w= 10 %=0,01    m= 28 %=0,03    t= 64 %=0,06    
 d= 12 %=0,01    n= 58 %=0,05    c= 18 %=0,02    j=  6 %=0,01    
 s= 33 %=0,03    z=  1 %=0,00    k= 76 %=0,07    g=  2 %=0,00    
 x=  1 %=0,00    h= 17 %=0,02    q=  6 %=0,01    r= 96 %=0,09    
 l= 61 %=0,06    y=  8 %=0,01   rr=  3 %=0,01   kh= 18 %=0,01   
wh=  1 %=0,01   th= 15 %=0,03   dh=  1 %=0,06   tc=  5 %=0,01
dj=  1 %=0,05   ng=  1 %=0,02   ny=  0 %=0,01   ts=  3 %=0,03   
ks=  1 %=0,00

This came from the list of the words in the dictionary (except for the
ones notes as from ancient vulcan).

I'm going to take Saul's list of Vulcan phrases and run that thru next
and see if I find any signifigant differences. Saul's list of phrases
may be a better sample in any case.

Rob Z.
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