Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | ʈɖ | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɳ | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | ʂ | ç | xɣ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | ɥ | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ɭ | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | ɔ |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)(C)(C)V(V)(C)(C)(C)/n/→[ŋ]/_k /g/→[ç]/V_# /g/→[ɣ]/V_V
Distribution of phonemes across 15 transcribed dictionary entries (48 total tokens)