Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | · | kg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | fv | sz | ʒ | · | x | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Mid | ø̞ | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ʌɔ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
(C)(C)(C)(C)V(C)Distribution of phonemes across 125 transcribed dictionary entries (508 total tokens)