Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | ʈɖ | cɟ | kg | qɢ | · | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | ɱ | · | n | · | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ɴ | · | · | |||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ʀ | · | · | |||||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | ⱱ | · | ɾ | · | ɽ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | ʂʐ | çʝ | xɣ | χʁ | ħʕ | hɦ | |||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | ɹ | · | ɻ | j | ɰ | · | · | · | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | ɭ | ʎ | ʟ | · | · | · | |||||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨʉ | ɯu |
| Near-close | ɪʏ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | eø | ɘɵ | ɤo |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | ɜɞ | ʌɔ |
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | · |
| Open | aɶ | ä | ɑɒ |
C(C)(V)/p/ → [ʘ] / _' /t/ → [ǀ] / _' /c/ → [ǁ] / _' /k/ → [ǃ] / _' /q/ → [ǂ] / _' /b/ → [ɓ] / _' /d/ → [ɗ] / _' /ɟ/ → [ʄ] / _' /g/ → [ɠ] / _' /ɢ/ → [ʛ] / _'
Distribution of phonemes across 604 transcribed dictionary entries (3,712 total tokens)