Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | s | ʃ | · | χ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | w | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | · |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)CV(C)/o/ → [o̝ʷ] / #_k (o raises and rounds before a following k)
Distribution of phonemes across 375 transcribed dictionary entries (2,014 total tokens)