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Use base consonants only
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Labial
Coronal
Dorsal
Radical
Laryngeal
Bilabial
Labio-dental
Dental
Alveolar
Palato-alveolar
Retroflex
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Pharyngeal
Epi-glottal
Glottal
Plosive
p   b                       c   ɟ   k   ɡ      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Affricates
            ts   dz                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
  m                         ɲ          
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                           
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
Tap, Flap
              ɾ                                  
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
    f   v   θ   ð   s   z           ç   ʝ   x   ɣ                  
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                                               
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
                  ʎ          
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Front
Near-front
Central
Near-back
Back
 
Close
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Use base consonants only

      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: Greek
UPSID number: 2000
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Indo-European, Greek
The languages has 31 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Greek is spoken primarily in Greece but also in parts of Cyprus, Italy, Albania and Turkey.

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Jacques Koreman: Palatals are here considered as phonemes, despite the analysis in Arvaniti (2007), where the existence of minimal pairs is acknowledged.

Sources:

Baltazani, M. & Topinzi, N. (2013). Where the glide meets the palatals. In N. Lavidas, Th. Alexiou & A. Sougari (eds.), Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 1‬: Selected Papers from the 20th‬ International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL), 177–196. London: Versita de Gruyter.

Arvaniti, A. (2007). Greek phonetics: the state of the art. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 8, 97–208.

Jongman, A., Fourakis, M. & Sereno, J.A. (1989). The acoustic vowels space of Modern Greek and German. Language and Speech, 32, 221-248.