Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | d | · | ɟ | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | sz | ʃ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
(C)V(C)Distribution of phonemes across 262 transcribed dictionary entries (1,281 total tokens)