What's your IPA inventory?

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Re: What's your IPA inventory?

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So, here is the general phonemes that I can perceive easily as distinct:

/m n ɲ/
/pʼ tʼ cʼ tsʼ tʃʼ kʼ/
/b d ɟ ɡ/
/f s z ʃ x/
/l/
/ʋ r ɻ~w j/

/i y u/
/e ø~œ o/
/ɛ a ɔ/

I can also easily perceive falling tones and high tones.

If you are interested I could also give the corresponding allophones for the phonemes I perceive.

This is an (incomplete) phone inventory that I use when speaking the languages I speak on a daily/weekly basis.

[m ɱ n n̠~ɲ ŋ]
[p pʰ b b̥ t̪ t̪ʰ d̪ d̪̊ t tʰ d d̥ k kʰ g g̊ ʔ]
[ts tʃʷ dʒʷ tɕ dʑ]
[f v v̥ s z z̥ ʃʷ ʒʷ ɕ ʑ ç ʝ x χ ʁ̝ h]
[ʋ l l̥ ɻʷ j ʁ̞ ʁ̞̊]
[r r̥ ɾ ɾ̥ ɾ̃ ʀ ʀ̥]

[i y ɪ ʏ ɨ̈ u ʊ]
[e ø ɛ œ ə ɜ ɞ o ɔ]
[a ɐ]

If you think I forgot some sounds, please let me know.
Edit: Also, in English I have the met-mat merger (TRAP-DRESS) and th-fronting (th-stopping in some function words), also t/d and n-flapping and difficulties to distinguish <w> and <r>.
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Creyeditor wrote:This is an (incomplete) phone inventory that I use when speaking the languages I speak on a daily/weekly basis.
How many languages is that typically?

Also if you don't mind answering, where are you located at?
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Creyeditor wrote: This is an (incomplete) phone inventory that I use when speaking the languages I speak on a daily/weekly basis.
What languages would that be?
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Looks like Hungarian and German to me, you know, if they both had ejectives. [:P] And with strongly accented English in the mix too.
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Imralu wrote:Looks like Hungarian and German to me, you know, if they both had ejectives. [:P] And with strongly accented English in the mix too.
I think Crey is German, which is why I was surprised by the ejectives...
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I am German and I speak Indonesian and English on a daily/weekly basis. So it's three languages. I do speak French and Spanish on some occassions, but only very rarely.

I do not use ejectives on a daily basis, but I can easily perceive them as distinct from voiced stops [:)]

I can produce a larger number of distinct sounds than I can easily perceive.
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Italian from Modena (southern part of the Po valley) here.
My inventory for Italian:

Nasals: /m n ɲ/
Plosives: /p b t d k g/
Fricatives: /f v s̠ z̠ ʃ̟/ (/s̠/ and /ʃ̟/ almost merge in my dialect, and definitely merge to /s̠/ for older speakers. This is very characteristic of the dialects of Emilia-Romagna.)
Liquids: /l r ʎ/
Approximants: /j w/
Affricates: /ts̪ dz̪ tʃ̟ dʒ̟/ (often /ts̪ dz̪/ lose their plosive part, especially around vowels; /tʃ̟ dʒ̟/ might also be realized as [ts̠ dz̠], it depends on the speaker mainly)

All of these but /z̠/ can geminate, and /ɲ ʃ̟ ʎ/ are always geminate between vowels.

As for vowels, /a e ɛ i o ɔ u/. Quite standard Italian.
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^ Italian's phonology is so delightfully symmetrical :)
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