Phoneme
April 14, 2025•72 words
Phoneme = Phonology
Phone = Phonetics
Phoneme types included:
Consonants
Vowels
Suprasegmentals (tone, nasalization, etc.)
No allophones; only distinct phonemes
Visualize(frequency of phonemes)
Open and downloadable in CSV/JSON formats
Integrated:
PHOIBLE (Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon) expands on UPSID
https://phoible.org
Data Sources:
UPSID (UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database)
UPSID (UCLA)
WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures)
PHONDATA
LAPSYD
Other field linguistics sources and descriptive grammars
English
https://phoible.org/languages/stan1293
Tamil Phoneme
https://phoible.org/languages/tami1289