Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | · | · | · | k | · | ||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | v | ð | · | ʃ | · | xɣ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ʏ | · | · |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | ä | · |
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)/ɣ/ → [x] / _C /h/ → [xʰ] / _# /h/ → [xʰ] / V_V
Distribution of phonemes across 260 transcribed dictionary entries (962 total tokens)