Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | sz | ʃ | · | · | h | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | tʃ | · | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
/ɪ/ → [i]
Distribution of phonemes across 165 transcribed dictionary entries (635 total tokens)