Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | · | k | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | ʃ | · | · | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | ø | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)(C)V(C)(C)Stress → penultimate syllable /r j ŋ/ → no gemination Word-final consonants restricted to /m n l s/
Distribution of phonemes across 1085 transcribed dictionary entries (5,580 total tokens)