Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | · | · | k | ʔ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | v | θ | s | x | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)(C)V(C)(C)/nʔ/ → [ŋ] / _C /r/ → [rː] / _r /ʔ/ → [ʔ] / #_V /ʔ/ → [ʔ] / V_V
Distribution of phonemes across 470 transcribed dictionary entries (2,680 total tokens)