Phonemic inventory
Consonants
| | Laminal
labial-alveolar | | Bilabial-alveolar | | Labial | | Laminal
alveolar | | Alveolar | | Velar |
|---|
| Nasal | | n͡m̻ | | n͡m | | m | | n̻ | | | | |
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| Stop | | t͡p̻ | | | | p | | t̻ | | | | k |
|---|
| Fricative | | s͡f̻ | | | | f | | s̻ | | | | x |
|---|
| Tap | | | | | | | | | | ɾ | | |
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Vowels
| | Front | | Central | | Back |
|---|
| High | | i | | | | u |
|---|
| Mid-high | | e | | | | o |
|---|
| Low | | | | a | | |
|---|
Syllable structure
(C)V
C: a consonant
V: a vowel
Allophony
- Non-velar obstruents or nasals [n͡m̻ n̻ t̻ ...] become velarised [n͡m̻ˠ n̻ˠ t̻ˠ ...] before a velar obstruent.
- Alveolar consonants other than [ɾ], i.e. [n͡m̻ n̻ t̻ˠ ...], assimilate in laminality to a following alveolar consonant.
- [ɾ] persistently become [ɾ̥] after a non-nasal phone except a non-nasal vowel or resonant.
- Non-nasal consonants [t͡p̻ t fˠ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a following obstruent or nasal and become voiceless word-finally.
- Short non-glottal stop non-glottal fricative voiceless consonants [t͡p̻ t̻ˠ f ...] become voiced [d͡b̻ d̻ˠ v ...] between a voiced phone and a voiced phone.
- Velar obstruents [k g x ɣ] become rounded [kʷ gʷ xʷ ɣʷ] before a non-low rounded vowel.
- Consonants [n͡m̻ pˠ s͡fˠ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a following obstruent or nasal.
- Consonants [n͡m̥̻ d͡b̻ˠ s͡f̻ˠ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a preceding obstruent or nasal.
- Non-sibilant coronal alveolar nasals [n͡m̥̻ n͡m n̥̻ˠ ...] become nasals and assimilate in place of articulation to a following obstruent or nasal.
- Labial obstruents or nasals [n͡m̥̻ m̥ p ...] persistently assimilate in labiodentality to a following labial obstruent or nasal.
Some words
| /ɾokiko/ | [ɾogigʷo] |
| /eme/ | [eme] |
| /s̻exe/ | [s̻eɣe] |
| /t̻exe/ | [t̻eɣe] |
| /ɾoupa/ | [ɾouba] |
| /ika/ | [iga] |
| /mit̻ama/ | [mid̻ama] |
| /pekon̻e/ | [pegʷon̻e] |
| /n̻emo/ | [n̻emo] |
| /s̻oui/ | [s̻oui] |
| /ximepa/ | [ximeba] |
| /maa/ | [maa] |
| /mes̻i/ | [mez̻i] |
| /paa/ | [paa] |
| /t̻aai/ | [t̻aai] |
| /kin͡ma/ | [kin͡ma] |
| /s̻aaku/ | [s̻aagʷu] |
| /kofit̻a/ | [kʷovid̻a] |
| /xan̻a/ | [xan̻a] |
| /pakie/ | [pagie] |
| /t̻emaɾe/ | [t̻emaɾe] |
| /fet̻eme/ | [fed̻eme] |
| /pis̻es̻i/ | [piz̻ez̻i] |
| /t̻ume/ | [t̻ume] |
| /ekiɾi/ | [egiɾi] |
| /n̻at̻ikipi/ | [n̻ad̻igibi] |
| /kat̻e/ | [kad̻e] |
| /ape/ | [abe] |
| /t̻ein̻u/ | [t̻ein̻u] |
| /t̻it̻a/ | [t̻id̻a] |
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