Murrinh-patha
The phoneme inventory below shows every sound that functions as a meaningful unit in Murrinh-patha — a Southern Daly language spoken in Australia . With 28 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
trill
Vowels
* Marginal phoneme — occurs only in loanwords or rare contexts.
How large is this inventory?
Murrinh-patha has 28 phonemes, placing it in the 26th percentile of languages by inventory size — smaller than most languages.
Compared to English
For English speakers learning Murrinh-patha, these are the sounds that will require the most focused practice.
In Murrinh-patha, not in English (20)
These sounds don't exist in English — English speakers will need to learn them from scratch.
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