Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | · | td | · | c | g | q | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɺ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | v | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | · | hɦ | |||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ʉ | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | ɤo |
| Open-mid | · | ɜ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)V(C)(C)/s/ -> [s] / V_i /s/ -> [h] / V_V /ds/ -> [sː] /n/ -> [ŋ] / _k
Distribution of phonemes across 389 transcribed dictionary entries (2,118 total tokens)