Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | · | · | ʁ | ||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | j | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | · | ɐ | · |
(C)(C)V(C)/i/ → [ĩ] / _m /i/ → [ĩ] / _n /ɐ/ → [ã] / _m /ɐ/ → [ã] / _n /ɛ/ → [ẽ] / _m /ɛ/ → [ẽ] / _n /u/ → [ũ] / _m /u/ → [ũ] / _n /o/ → [õ] / _m /o/ → [õ] / _n
Distribution of phonemes across 202 transcribed dictionary entries (755 total tokens)