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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: | French |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Indo-European, Romance |
| The languages has | 35 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [p] [b] [t̪] [d̪] [k] [ɡ] [s̪] [z̪] [ʃ] [ʒ] [f] [v] [l̪] [ɥ] [w] [j] [m] [n̪] [ɲ] [ŋ] [o] [ɛ̃] [ə] [ɔ̃] [y] [i] [u] [ø] [e] [œ] [ɛ] [ɔ] [ä] [ɑ̃] [ʁ] |
| Comments: | French is spoken in Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, the Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Haiti, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo and Vanuatu |
| Sources: | Fougeron, C. and C. L. Smith. 1999. French. Handbook of the IPA. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. * Clusters derived by PW from word onsets and endings in IPA-dict, including clusters like /db/ in onset which only occurs in short phrases like "de bonne heure" or "de bout en bout"; the cluster doe not occur in any single word; checked by JK. NB: clusters are incomplete since clusters which do not adhere to the sonority sequencing principles have not been read in correctly! |