Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɒ |
(C)(C)V(C)(C)sps->[ps] pps->[ps] nps->[ps]
Distribution of phonemes across 734 transcribed dictionary entries (3,854 total tokens)