Phonemic inventory
Consonants
| | Bilabial | | Laminal alveolar | | Palatoalv. sibilant / palatal | | Velar |
| Nasal | | | m | | | n̻ | | | ɲ | | | |
| Stop | | p | b | | t̻ | d̻ | | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | | k | g |
| Fricative | | | | | s̻ | | | ʃ | | | x | |
| Tap | | | | | | ɾ̻ | | | | | | |
| Approximant | | | | | | l̻ | | | | | | |
Vowels
| | Front | | Central | | Back |
| High | | i | iː | y | yː | | | | | | | | | u | uː |
| Mid-high | | | eː | | øː | | | | | | | | | | oː |
| Low | | | | | | | a | aː | | | | | | | |
Syllable structure
(C1)V(C2)
C1: a consonant
V: a vowel
C2: a consonant
Allophony
- [ɾ̻] become [ɹ̻] before an alveolar approximant.
- Nasals [m n̻ ɲ] become nasals and assimilate in place of articulation between an obstruent or nasal and an obstruent or nasal.
- Short non-glottal stop non-glottal fricative voiceless fricatives [s̻ ʃ x] persistently become voiced [z̻ ʒ ɣ] between a voiced phone and a voiced phone.
- Non-nasal consonants [p g ʒ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a preceding obstruent or nasal and become voiceless word-initially.
- Coronal consonants [n̻ d͡ʒ ɾ̥̻ ...] persistently assimilate in anteriority and retroflexion to a following non-velar consonant other than a non-affricate stop or nasal. Before a palatoalveolar obstruent or nasal other than [ṉ], [t̻ d̻] become [t͡ʃ d͡ʒ].
- Palatoalveolar taps [ɾ̥̱ ɾ̱] persistently become alveolar [ɾ̥̻ ɾ̻].
- Palatoalveolar resonants [ɾ̥̱ ɹ̥̱ l̥̱ ...] persistently become non-coronal palatal semivowels [j̥ j̥ j̥ ...]. Approximant laterals become semivowels.
- Resonants [ɾ̥̻ ɹ̥̻ ɹ̱ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a preceding obstruent.
- Non-nasal consonants other than voiced fricatives [p d͡ʒ ɹ̻ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a following obstruent or nasal.
- Stops or nasals other than obstruent sibilants [m ɲ t̻ ...] are persistently deleted between an obstruent or nasal and a stop or nasal.
- Bilabial stops or nasals [m p b] become non-bilabial and assimilate in dorsality and uvularity and palatalisation and whether palatal or palatalised velar to a following phone.
- Obstruents [p k s̻ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a following obstruent and become voiceless word-finally.
- Non-pharyngeal consonants other than [j̥ j], i.e. [m k ɾ̥̻ ...], assimilate in palatalisation to a following consonant.
- Nasals [m n̻ʲ ɲ ...] become nasals and assimilate in place of articulation to a following obstruent or nasal.
- Palatal semivowels [j̥ j] are persistently deleted after a non-front consonant.
- Non-back tense vowels and non-velarised tense semivowels [j̥ i yː ...] become central [ ɨ ʉː ...] after a non-front consonant. Semivowels are deleted.
- Short voiced fricatives [z̻ ʒ ʝ ...] become resonants [ɾ̻ ɾ̻ j ...] between a vowel or semivowel and a vowel or semivowel. Palatoalveolar fricatives become alveolar; [z̻ʲ ʑ] become [ɾ̻ ɾ̻]; [ɣ] are deleted.
Some words
| /muʃl̻y/ | [muz̻l̻ʉ] |
| /ɾ̻eːmpuː/ | [ɾ̥̻ɘːmbuː] |
| /kiɲ/ | [kɨɲ] |
| /xuml̻ix/ | [xuml̻ɨx] |
| /kakix/ | [kakɨx] |
| /t͡ʃoːkoːx/ | [t͡ʃoːkoːx] |
| /ʃeːn̻buʃ/ | [ʃɘːmbuʃ] |
| /goːn̻/ | [koːn̻] |
| /kaʃn̻iː/ | [kaʒn̻ɨː] |
| /t̻as̻poːn̻/ | [t̻as̻poːn̻] |
| /kygd̻il̻/ | [kʉgd̻ɨl̻] |
| /uːl̻eː/ | [uːl̻ɘː] |
| /t͡ʃu/ | [t͡ʃu] |
| /bis̻oːg/ | [pɨɾ̻oːk] |
| /s̻uːn̻t̻ig/ | [s̻uːn̻d̻ɨk] |
| /l̻ul̻py/ | [l̥̻ul̥̻pʉ] |
| /kyxʃuːp/ | [kʉxʃuːp] |
| /xeːn̻/ | [xɘːn̻] |
| /ukuk/ | [ukuk] |
| /s̻ik/ | [s̻ɨk] |
| /kal̻pyl̻/ | [kal̥̻pʉl̻] |
| /s̻a/ | [s̻a] |
| /t͡ʃeːt͡ʃt͡ʃy/ | [t͡ʃɘːt͡ʃt͡ʃʉ] |
| /yːn̻/ | [yːn̻] |
| /n̻øːl̻al̻/ | [n̻ɵːl̻al̻] |
| /kuɲt͡ʃal̻/ | [kuṉd͡ʒal̻] |
| /kuːt͡ʃn̻u/ | [kuːd͡ʒn̻u] |
| /d̻eːt͡ʃu/ | [t̻ɘːt͡ʃu] |
| /n̻ud̻put̻/ | [n̻ud̻but̻] |
| /n̻i/ | [n̻ɨ] |
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