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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5376 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 9 of 11 23 April 2011 at 1:19am | IP Logged |
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My dialect of English has 24 consonants, 10 vowels and 9 diphthongs.
Consonants: p, b, t, d, k, g, tʃ, dʒ, f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, h, m, n, ŋ, l, ɹ, w, j Vowels: iː, ɪ, ɛ, æ, ɑː, ɑ̹ː, u:, ʌ, ə, ɚ Diphthongs: ɛɪ, aɪ, oɪ, aʊ, oʊ, iɹ, eɹ, ɑɹ, oɹ In my dialect, the vowel /ʊ/ has essentially become a stressed /ə/. And I consider the vowel + /ɹ/ combinations to be diphthongs, since the /ɹ/ is a semi-vocalic sound and there are only four vowels it can be paired with. Edited by Levi on 23 April 2011 at 4:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pitwo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5968 days ago 103 posts - 121 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 10 of 11 23 April 2011 at 4:12am | IP Logged |
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Alex, I'd be interested in a list of phonemes used in CF.
If you could go through it, that'd be cool :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6487 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 11 of 11 23 April 2011 at 10:25am | IP Logged |
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According to Swedish Wikipedia, Swedish has 35-36 phonemes. And I could perhaps add that Norwegian has 30-40; I guess it depends on dialect. Edited by tricoteuse on 23 April 2011 at 10:28am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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