Sound inventory and phonological rules
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | kg | ʔ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | · | x | h | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | ts | · | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | · |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ɔ |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑɒ |
(C)(C)(C)(N)(C)(C)(C)(C)Distribution of phonemes across 378 transcribed dictionary entries (2,087 total tokens)