Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
(C)(C)V(C)(C)th → θ / _ sh → ʃ / _ aa → ɑː / _ oo → oː / _ uu → uː / _ ae → aɪ / _
Distribution of phonemes across 338 transcribed dictionary entries (1,759 total tokens)