Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | td | · | · | k | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | s | ʃ | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)V(C)/d/ -> [ɾ] / V_V Stress is usually on the penultimate syllable of a word, unless that word ends in /i/, the diphthong /ei/, or a nasal vowel. In addition to the monophthongs, Ahiyaniwa also frequently uses the diphthongs /ei/, /ai/, and /au/. /ui/ is very rare.
Distribution of phonemes across 424 transcribed dictionary entries (445 total tokens)