Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʃ | · | · | χ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
(V)C(C)VC(C)(V)F as the first letter the sound is F, but if its in the middle or the end of a word, it sounds like V H as the first letter the sound is H, but if its in the middle or the end of a word, it sounds like χ
Distribution of phonemes across 134 transcribed dictionary entries (501 total tokens)