Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | cɟ | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | s | ç | x | χʁ | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
(C)(C)V(C)/p, t, c, k/ → [pʰ, tʰ, cʰ, kʰ] / +STRESS /ɑ, ɔ, o, u/ → [æ, œ, ø, y] / [c, cʰ, ɟ, ç, j]_ /n/ → [ɴ] / _# /kw, ɡw, ŋ̊w, ŋw, χw/ → [kʷ, ɡʷ, ŋ̊ʷ, ŋʷ, ʍ] /χ, ʁ/ → [x ɣ] / _ i
Distribution of phonemes across 764 transcribed dictionary entries (3,713 total tokens)