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Labial
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Laryngeal
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Labio-dental
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Alveolar
Palato-alveolar
Retroflex
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Uvular
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Epi-glottal
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Plosive
 p b     t̪ d̪                 k ɡ    
 
 
 
 
 ʔ
 
Affricates
                 tʃ                  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
   m       n̪                   ŋ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                            
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
Tap, Flap
               ɾ                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
     f       s                               h  
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                           j   w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
       l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      CC, onset

      CC, onset (ordered by sonority)

      CC, coda

      CC, coda (ordered by sonority)

      CCC, onset

      CCC, onset (ordered by sonority)

      CCC, coda

      CCC, coda (ordered by sonority)

      CCCC, onset

      CCCC, onset (ordered by sonority)

      CCCC, coda

      CCCC, coda (ordered by sonority)

      CCCCC, onset

      CCCCC, onset (ordered by sonority)

      CCCCC, coda

      CCCCC, coda (ordered by sonority)

Selected languages: Tagalog
UPSID number: 2414
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Austro-Tai, W. Malayo-Polynesian
The languages has 23 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds: [p] [b] [t̪] [d̪] [k] [ɡ] [ʔ] [s] [f] [tʃ] [ɾ] [l] [w] [j] [m] [n̪] [ŋ] [ɪ] [ʊ] [e̞] [o̞] [ä] [h]
Comments:

Tagalog is spoken in Manila, most of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philipines.
/o/ and /e/ were in predictable alternation with /i/ and /u/ in native vocabulary but loanwords from Spanish and English have added contrastive function to the mid vowels.

OLAF HUSBY (L1-L2map EDITOR): The classification of /f/ as a phoneme is disputable. Schachter, who is quoted below, omits /f/ in his review of Tagalog in Comrie (1987) The World's Major Languages. There is also different approaches to descriptions of diphthongs. As /j/ and /w/ as classified at semivowels, they are not used to described diphthongs (defines as vowel + vowel). However, semivowel+vowel clusters as /ij/, /ej/, /aj/, /oj/, /uj/, /aw, /iw/ are attested.
Sources:

Bloomfield, L. 1917. Tagalog Texts with Grammatical
Analysis (University of Illinois Studies in Language and
Literature 3/2-3). University of Illinois, Urbana.

Schachter, P. and Otanes, F.T. 1972. Tagalog Reference
Grammar. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los
Angeles.