Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | ɖ | c | kɡ | q | ʔ | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | v | s | ʃʒ | · | · | · | · | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | ɯu |
| Near-close | ɪʏ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | · | ɘ | o |
VC/ʊ/ → [ʊ̥] / _h /o/ → [o̥] / _h /ɘ/ → [ɘ̥] / _h /ɯ/ → [ɯ̥] / _h /u/ → [u̥] / _h /ɪ/ → [ɪ̥] / _h /ʏ/ → [ʏ̥] / _h /ʊ/ → /ʊ/ / _w /o/ → /o/ / _w /ɘ/ → /ɵ/ / _w /ɯ/ → /u/ / _w /u/ → /u/ / _w /ɪ/ → /ʊ/ / _w /ʏ/ → /ʏ/ / _w /ʊ/ → /ʏ/ / _j /o/ → /ø/ / _j /ɘ/ → /ɘ/ / _j /ɯ/ → /ɨ/ / _j /u/ → /y/ / _j /ɪ/ → /ɪ/ / _j /ʏ/ → /ʏ/ / _j
Distribution of phonemes across 37 transcribed dictionary entries (166 total tokens)