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| Selected languages: | German |
| UPSID number: | 2004 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Indo-European, Germanic, West |
| The languages has | 44 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [pʰ] [b] [tʰ] [d] [kʰ] [ɡ] [s] [z] [ʃ] [ʒ] [f] [ʋ] [x] [ts] [pf] [ʁ] [l] [j] [m] [n] [ŋ] [ʏ] [ɪ] [yː] [iː] [ʊ] [uː] [øː] [eː] [oː] [ə] [œ] [ɛː] [ɛ] [ɔ] [ɐ] [äː] [ɔi] [äi] [äu] [h] [tʃ] [ä] [ç] |
| Comments: | German is spoken primarily in West and East |
| Sources: | Moulton, W.G. 1962. The Sounds of English and German. Wangler, H.H. 1972. Physiologische Phonetik, eine |