Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | β | ð | s | ʃ | · | xɣ | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ʉ | · |
| Close-mid | ø | · | · |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | ä | · |
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)/ɣ/ → [x] / _C /h/ → [xʰ] / _# /h/ → [xʰ] / V_V
Distribution of phonemes across 203 transcribed dictionary entries (627 total tokens)