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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: | Catalan (Central) |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Indo-European, Romance |
The languages has | 57 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [p] [b] [t̪] [d̪] [k] [ɡ] [s] [ʒ] [f] [ue] [z] [ʃ] [tʃ] [dʒ] [ɾ] [r] [ʎ] [ʎː] [uɛ] [m] [n] [ɲ] [ŋ] [i] [u] [e] [o] [ə] [ɛ] [ɔ] [ä] [ie] [iɛ] [ui] [iə] [iu] [io] [iä] [lˠ] [uä] [uɔ] [uo] [uə] [oi] [eu] [ɔu] [ɛu] [ou] [ei] [iɔ] [ɔi] [äi] [əi] [äu] [ɛi] [əu] [dz] |
Comments: | *Catalan is the only official language in Andorra and it is co-official with Spanish in the Spanish autonomous regions of Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands. It is also spoken, with no official recognition, in a small part of the autonomous regions of Aragon (in la Franja) and Murcia (in el Carxe) in Spain, as well as in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia and in the historic Roussillon region of southern France (usually called ‘Northern Catalonia’), roughly equivalent to the current département of the Pyrénées-Orientales. |
Sources: | Carbonell, Joan F.; Llisterri, Joaquim (1999), "Catalan", Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the usage of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 61–65, ISBN 0-521-63751-1 Positional information and geminates after discussion JK with MRL and CPM. Sons del català: http://www.ub.edu/sonscatala/web2008. |