Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | · | kg | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | · | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | · | · | ɭ | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)(C)V(C)/θ/ → [ð] / _V (becomes voiced when before a vowel)
Distribution of phonemes across 11 transcribed dictionary entries (29 total tokens)