> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:46:14 -0400, Logan Kearsley <chronosurfer@...>
> wrote:
>
>>I used to have an IPA table that included the frequency of each phone
>>among world languages- which phones occur in 90% of all languages,
>>which phones occur in 80% of languages, which phones occur in only 5%
>>of languages, etc. But I seem to have lost it, and I can't find
>>anything like that on line. Anybody know where I could get a table or
>>a list with frequencies for different phones among world languages?
>
> Wouldn't you know it, I was _just_ looking for the very same thing. UPSID
> (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database) does nearly exactly this,
> and there's an interface to it at
>
http://web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/upsid.html .
> Use "find certain sounds and languages that have them", option #5; it gives
> you a table with frequencies of each phone in the phonologies in its
> database below the output. Not sorted, but you can do that.