Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | sz | ɕʑ | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)V(n)/h/ > [ç] / _i /n/ > [ŋ] / _k /n/ > [ŋ] / _g
Distribution of phonemes across 153 transcribed dictionary entries (890 total tokens)