Re: Question about UPSID and the *natlang* with over 200 phonemes

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 01:59:27 -0600, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:

>Referring to this URL:
>
>http://www.langmaker.com/db/ups_index_phonemeinventory.htm
>
>It's a list of languages ranked from lowest to highest in terms of number of
>total consonant and vowel phonemes. Unsurprisingly, Mura and Rotokas came in
>with 9, followed by Hawaiian and Nasioi with 11 (but I thought Hawaiian had
>18, if you count long vowels and the glottal stop)
There are definitely some inconsistencies.  I created the pages because I
couldn't find ready access to the database.  These pages are derived from
the assertion files in the MacProlog implementation of UPSID.  That
implementation could be the source of some errors, as could my conversion
from that implementation.

Feedback welcome.

Jeffrey