Phonemic inventory
Consonants
| | Laminal
labial-alveolar | | Bilabial-alveolar | | Labial | | Laminal
alveolar | | Alveolar | | Velar |
|---|
| Nasal | | n͡m̻ | | n͡m | | m | | n̻ | | | | |
|---|
| Stop | | t͡p̻ | | | | p | | t̻ | | | | k |
|---|
| Fricative | | s͡f̻ | | | | f | | s̻ | | | | x |
|---|
| Tap | | | | | | | | | | ɾ | | |
|---|
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 [n͡mˠ̻ nˠ̻ tˠ̻ ...] before a velar obstruent.
- Alveolar consonants other than [ɾ], i.e. [n͡m̻ n̻ tˠ̻ ...], 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 tˠ̻ f ...] become voiced [d͡b̻ dˠ̻ 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 d͡bˠ̻ s͡fˠ̻ ...] persistently assimilate in voice to a preceding obstruent or nasal.
- Non-sibilant coronal alveolar nasals [n͡m̥̻ n͡m nˠ̥̻ ...] 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
| /maxixa/ | [maɣiɣa] |
| /as̻i/ | [az̻i] |
| /ɾit̻a/ | [ɾid̻a] |
| /n̻at̻a/ | [n̻ad̻a] |
| /maife/ | [maive] |
| /ike/ | [ige] |
| /s̻on̻ut͡p̻e/ | [s̻on̻ud͡b̻e] |
| /ɾaxaki/ | [ɾaɣagi] |
| /kas̻a/ | [kaz̻a] |
| /t̻aii/ | [t̻aii] |
| /n͡m̻os̻ifa/ | [n͡m̻oz̻iva] |
| /s̻ue/ | [s̻ue] |
| /t͡p̻aɾo/ | [t͡p̻aɾo] |
| /feu/ | [feu] |
| /n̻eui/ | [n̻eui] |
| /xipu/ | [xibu] |
| /t̻euxi/ | [t̻euɣi] |
| /xapin̻e/ | [xabin̻e] |
| /t̻eka/ | [t̻ega] |
| /fexoa/ | [feɣʷoa] |
| /n̻as̻ema/ | [n̻az̻ema] |
| /papis̻a/ | [pabiz̻a] |
| /fiɾiɾo/ | [fiɾiɾo] |
| /n̻ima/ | [n̻ima] |
| /aximo/ | [aɣimo] |
| /kepis͡f̻ifi/ | [kebiz͡v̻ivi] |
| /xupa/ | [xʷuba] |
| /efa/ | [eva] |
| /paiki/ | [paigi] |
| /n̻in̻e/ | [n̻in̻e] |
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