/ˈaɪ.pə/

Compare Phoneme Inventories

Select any two languages to see a side-by-side comparison of their sound systems — which phonemes they share, which each language has that the other doesn't, and how their inventories overlap overall.

Popular comparisons

Kabardian vs Ket
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Kabardian vs Western Desert
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Kabardian vs Adzera
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Kabardian vs Kaliai
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Kabardian vs Iai
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Ket vs Western Desert
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Ket vs Adzera
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Ket vs Kaliai
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Ket vs Iai
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Ket vs Chamorro
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Western Desert vs Adzera
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Western Desert vs Kaliai
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Western Desert vs Iai
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Western Desert vs Chamorro
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Western Desert vs Sa'ban
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Adzera vs Kaliai
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Adzera vs Iai
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Adzera vs Chamorro
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Adzera vs Sa'ban
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Adzera vs Toba-Batak
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Kaliai vs Iai
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Kaliai vs Chamorro
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Kaliai vs Sa'ban
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Kaliai vs Toba-Batak
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Kaliai vs Malagasy
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Iai vs Chamorro
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Iai vs Sa'ban
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Iai vs Toba-Batak
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Iai vs Malagasy
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Iai vs Atayal
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Chamorro vs Sa'ban
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Chamorro vs Toba-Batak
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Chamorro vs Malagasy
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Chamorro vs Atayal
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Chamorro vs Cham
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Sa'ban vs Toba-Batak
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Sa'ban vs Malagasy
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Sa'ban vs Atayal
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Sa'ban vs Cham
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Sa'ban vs Yay
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Toba-Batak vs Malagasy
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Toba-Batak vs Atayal
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Toba-Batak vs Cham
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Toba-Batak vs Yay
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Toba-Batak vs Lakkia
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Malagasy vs Atayal
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Malagasy vs Cham
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Malagasy vs Yay
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Malagasy vs Lakkia
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Malagasy vs Karen
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Atayal vs Cham
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Atayal vs Yay
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Atayal vs Lakkia
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Atayal vs Karen
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Atayal vs Garo
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Cham vs Yay
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Cham vs Lakkia
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Cham vs Karen
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Cham vs Garo
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Cham vs Lahu
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Yay vs Lakkia
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Yay vs Karen
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Yay vs Garo
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Yay vs Lahu
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Yay vs Dafla
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Lakkia vs Karen
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Lakkia vs Garo
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Lakkia vs Lahu
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Lakkia vs Dafla
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Lakkia vs Yao
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Karen vs Garo
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Karen vs Lahu
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Karen vs Dafla
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Karen vs Yao
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Karen vs Hakka Chinese
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Garo vs Lahu
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Garo vs Dafla
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Garo vs Yao
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Garo vs Hakka Chinese
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Lahu vs Dafla
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Lahu vs Yao
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Lahu vs Hakka Chinese
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Dafla vs Yao
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Dafla vs Hakka Chinese
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Yao vs Hakka Chinese
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Browse by language family

Languages within the same family often share a core set of sounds inherited from their common ancestor, but diverge in interesting ways. Compare any two languages from the same family to see what they have in common — or compare across families to see how different human sound systems can be.

Afro-Asiatic

Arabic Egyptian Arabic Hausa Amharic Somali Tigrinya Modern Hebrew Lebanese Arabic Tamazight Berber Tashlhiyt Berber Tigre
Arabic vs Egyptian Arabic → Arabic vs Hausa → Egyptian Arabic vs Hausa → Egyptian Arabic vs Amharic → Hausa vs Amharic → Hausa vs Somali → Amharic vs Somali → Amharic vs Tigrinya → Somali vs Tigrinya →

Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

Navaho Hupa Chasta Costa Chipewyan
Navaho vs Hupa → Navaho vs Chasta Costa → Hupa vs Chasta Costa → Hupa vs Chipewyan → Chasta Costa vs Chipewyan →

Atlantic-Congo

Yorouba Igbo Lingala fulfulde (NGA) Swahili Zulu Shona Kinyarwanda Rundi Akan Xhosa Kikuyu
Yorouba vs Igbo → Yorouba vs Lingala → Igbo vs Lingala → Igbo vs fulfulde (NGA) → Lingala vs fulfulde (NGA) → Lingala vs Swahili → fulfulde (NGA) vs Swahili → fulfulde (NGA) vs Zulu → Swahili vs Zulu →

Austroasiatic

Vietnamese Central Khmer Santali Khasi SEDANG Kharia Bhumij
Vietnamese vs Central Khmer → Vietnamese vs Santali → Central Khmer vs Santali → Central Khmer vs Khasi → Santali vs Khasi → Santali vs SEDANG → Khasi vs SEDANG → Khasi vs Kharia → SEDANG vs Kharia →

Austronesian

Standard Malay Javanese Tagalog Indonesian Sundanese Cebuano Ilocano Hiligaynon Madurese Minangkabau Bikol (Bicolano) Bugis
Standard Malay vs Javanese → Standard Malay vs Tagalog → Javanese vs Tagalog → Javanese vs Indonesian → Tagalog vs Indonesian → Tagalog vs Sundanese → Indonesian vs Sundanese → Indonesian vs Cebuano → Sundanese vs Cebuano →

Dravidian

Telugu Tamil Kannada Malayalam Kurukh TULU Kota
Telugu vs Tamil → Telugu vs Kannada → Tamil vs Kannada → Tamil vs Malayalam → Kannada vs Malayalam → Kannada vs Kurukh → Malayalam vs Kurukh → Malayalam vs TULU → Kurukh vs TULU →

Eskimo-Aleut

Inuit Aleut
Inuit vs Aleut →

Indo-European

Spanish English (New Zealand) Hindi-Urdu Portuguese (European) Bengali Russian Marathi French GERMAN Urdu Punjabi Italian
Spanish vs English (New Zealand) → Spanish vs Hindi-Urdu → English (New Zealand) vs Hindi-Urdu → English (New Zealand) vs Portuguese (European) → Hindi-Urdu vs Portuguese (European) → Hindi-Urdu vs Bengali → Portuguese (European) vs Bengali → Portuguese (European) vs Russian → Bengali vs Russian →