Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | χʁ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C)f -> v / V_V
æ -> ɑ / _
y,y: -> i,i:
g -> j / V_{i,i:,e,ɛ}
g -> χ / V_{a,a:,ɑ,o,u,u:}
ea -> a
eo -> a / _r[+consonant] (default)
eo -> o / w_r[+consonant] (w-initial exception)
eo -> e / _
ea:, eo: -> e:
V -> V: / _ [l,r,n,m][+voice,-continuant]
a: -> a: / _ (blocked from rounding)
i -> i / [unstressed prefix]_ (blocked from rounding)
e:, ae: -> i: / _
o: -> u: / _
i: -> ɪ / _j
riC -> irC / #b_ (optional/dialectal, produces doublets)
a -> o / _[m,n][+consonant]?
þ -> t / [nasal]_
[p, t, k] -> [pʰ, tʰ, kʰ] / #_V[+stress] (blocked after s)Distribution of phonemes across 296 transcribed dictionary entries (1,268 total tokens)