Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | · | kɡ | · | · | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ɕʑ | ʂ | · | · | ʁ | h | ||||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
CV. VC. CC. VV. CVC. VCV. VCC. CVV. VVC. CCV. V. C. CVCV. VCVC. CCVV. VVCC VCVV. CVCC. VVCV. CCVC VCCV. CVVC. Writing the letter Ɛ after Ç, H, and Ʒ is prohibited. Instead of ɛ after these letters, Ә is used.
Distribution of phonemes across 57 transcribed dictionary entries (211 total tokens)