Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)/e/ -> [ɛ]/_C$, _CC$, _CCC$ /o/ -> [ɔ]/_C$, _CC$, _CCC$ /n/ -> [ŋ]/_k, _g /x/ -> [ɣ]/V_V, _# /n/ -> [ɱ]/_v
Distribution of phonemes across 572 transcribed dictionary entries (2,001 total tokens)