Re: Consonant phoneme frequency.

On 6/4/05, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:
> Are there any good sources I could use for finding out
> the approximate frequency of given consonant classes
> in languages?
I'd like to know this too.

I have no idea about general phoneme frequency within a language,
but I read a very interesting article concerning phoneme frequency
*across languages*.

http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/phonology.html
And especially this chart:
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/segmental_phonemes.png

For the world's 25 major languages, the author suggests that following
phoneme set lets more than 22 languages have each phoneme (I think
I will use this set in some future project :-)

p b t d k s l j m n
a e i o u
(if x is allophone of h, it can go in too)

Seo Sanghyeon

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