Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | t | · | ʈɖ | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | sz | ʑ | ʂ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑɒ |
(C)V(C)(C)Distribution of phonemes across 140 transcribed dictionary entries (708 total tokens)