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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 | 56 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] |
Comments: | *Catalan is the official language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, also in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken, with no official recognition, in the autonomous communities of Aragon (in La Franja) and Murcia (in Carche) in Spain, and in the historic Roussillon region of southern France, roughly equivalent to the current département of the Pyrénées-Orientales (Northern Catalonia). There are two standard dialects, one based on Eastern Catalan and one based on Valencian. |
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. |