Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | k | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | · | · | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)V(C)(C)/i/ → [ɨ] / C _ C /i/ → [i] / elsewhere /t/ → [tʰ] / # _ V /k/ → [kʰ] / # _ V /p/ → [pʰ] / # _ V /n/ → [ŋ] / _ k /n/ → [ɲ] / _ j /s/ → [z] / V _ V /ts/ → [dz] / V _ V /r/ → [ɾ] / V _ V /r/ → [r] / elsewhere /h/ → [ç] / _ i /ɣ/ → [ʝ] / _ i
Distribution of phonemes across 584 transcribed dictionary entries (3,377 total tokens)