/ˈaɪ.pə/

English (New Zealand)

Family: Indo-European · Africa · ISO eng · Glottolog · 380,000,000 speakers
24
Consonants
21
Vowels

The phoneme inventory below shows every sound that functions as a meaningful unit in English (New Zealand) — a Indo-European language spoken in Africa . With 45 phonemes, it has a relatively large inventory compared to the world's languages. Sounds marked with a dashed border (*) are marginal: they appear only in loanwords or highly specialized contexts and are not part of the core phonological system.

Consonants

affricate

ts ~ d̠ʒ ~ t̠ʃ ~ kx ~

approximant

w ~ j ~ ɹ ~

fricative

θ ~ ð ~ h ~ f ~ v ~

lateral fricative

l ~

nasal

n ~ m ~ ŋ ~

sibilant fricative

z ~ s ~ ʃ ~ ʒ ~

stop

d ~ pʰ ~ b ~ ɡ ~

Vowels

ʊ ~ ɒ ~ ɐ ~ oː ~ ʉː ~ ɐː ~ ɵː ~ ɐʉ ~ iː ~ i ~ ɒɯ ~ iə ~ eə ~ oe ~ e ~ ɑe ~ æo ~ ɘ ~ æe ~ ʉə ~ ɛ ~

* Marginal phoneme — occurs only in loanwords or rare contexts.

How large is this inventory?

Smaller (11) Average (36) Larger (141)
45
phonemes

English (New Zealand) has 45 phonemes, placing it in the 75th percentile of languages by inventory size — larger than most languages.

Most phonologically similar languages

Ranked by Jaccard similarity — the proportion of phonemes shared relative to the combined inventory of both languages.

Jamaican Creole 37%
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