Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | · | k | ʔ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||
| Fricative | · | s | · | · | h | |||||
| Affricate | · | · | tɕ | · | · | |||||
| Approximant | · | · | j | w | · | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | |||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | ɯu |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
(C)V(V)(C) + Tone∅ → ə / C_C · C T[52, 353, 21] → ∅ / V_C · C = p, t, k
Distribution of phonemes across 78 transcribed dictionary entries (329 total tokens)