Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | ɖ | · | kg | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ɲ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | ʝ | x | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | ʎ | · | ||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
/s/ - [z] #V_V voicing between vowels /sĭ/ - [ʒ] #V_V voicing between vowels /a/, /e/ sound like opened in the start of the words
Distribution of phonemes across 205 transcribed dictionary entries (1,138 total tokens)