KOHUMONO

28
Consonants
10
Vowels

The phoneme inventory below shows every sound that functions as a meaningful unit in KOHUMONO — a Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Africa . With 38 phonemes, it has an average-sized 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

approximant

sibilant fricative

trill

Vowels

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

How large is this inventory?

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38
phonemes

KOHUMONO has 38 phonemes, placing it in the 56th percentile of languages by inventory size — roughly average for a human language.

Compared to English

For English speakers learning KOHUMONO, these are the sounds that will require the most focused practice.

In KOHUMONO, not in English (17)

These sounds don't exist in English — English speakers will need to learn them from scratch.

In English, not in KOHUMONO (24)

English speakers learning KOHUMONO won't use these sounds — they'll need to suppress them.

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

Compare KOHUMONO with another language

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