Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | cɟ | kɡ | qɢ | ʔ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | ɴ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | xɣ | χʁ | h | ||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | ɥ | w | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | ɯu |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | ɤo |
| Mid | e̞ | ə | ɤ̞o̞ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
(C)(C)(C)(C)V/C(C)(C)(C)/pʰa, tʰa, kʰa/ → [pʰæ, tʰæ, kʰæ]
Distribution of phonemes across 180 transcribed dictionary entries (693 total tokens)