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"dataset_name": "PHOIBLE Phonological Inventories",
"last_updated": "2026-01-15",
"source": "PHOIBLE database (phoible.org) - cross-linguistic phonological inventory database",
"record_count": 105484,
"fields": {
"InventoryID": "Unique identifier for each language's phonological inventory",
"Glottocode": "Glottolog language identifier code",
"ISO6393": "ISO 639-3 language code",
"LanguageName": "Name of the language",
"SpecificDialect": "Dialect specification if applicable",
"GlyphID": "Unicode code point identifier for the phoneme glyph",
"Phoneme": "IPA representation of the phoneme",
"Allophones": "Allophonic variants of the phoneme",
"Marginal": "Whether the phoneme is marginal in the inventory",
"SegmentClass": "Classification as consonant or vowel",
"Source": "Source of the inventory data (e.g., spa, upsid, gm, aa, ph, ra, saphon, er)",
"tone": "Tonal feature value",
"stress": "Stress feature value",
"syllabic": "Syllabic feature value",
"short": "Short duration feature value",
"long": "Long duration feature value",
"consonantal": "Consonantal feature value",
"sonorant": "Sonorant feature value",
"continuant": "Continuant feature value",
"delayedRelease": "Delayed release feature value",
"approximant": "Approximant feature value",
"tap": "Tap/flap feature value",
"trill": "Trill feature value",
"nasal": "Nasal feature value",
"lateral": "Lateral feature value",
"labial": "Labial place feature value",
"round": "Lip rounding feature value",
"labiodental": "Labiodental feature value",
"coronal": "Coronal place feature value",
"anterior": "Anterior feature value",
"distributed": "Distributed feature value",
"strident": "Strident feature value",
"dorsal": "Dorsal place feature value",
"high": "High tongue body feature value",
"low": "Low tongue body feature value",
"front": "Front tongue body feature value",
"back": "Back tongue body feature value",
"tense": "Tense feature value",
"retractedTongueRoot": "Retracted tongue root (RTR) feature value",
"advancedTongueRoot": "Advanced tongue root (ATR) feature value",
"periodicGlottalSource": "Periodic glottal source (voicing) feature value",
"epilaryngealSource": "Epilaryngeal source feature value",
"spreadGlottis": "Spread glottis (aspiration) feature value",
"constrictedGlottis": "Constricted glottis feature value",
"fortis": "Fortis feature value",
"lenis": "Lenis feature value",
"raisedLarynxEjective": "Raised larynx ejective feature value",
"loweredLarynxImplosive": "Lowered larynx implosive feature value",
"click": "Click feature value"
},
"notes": "Each row represents a single phoneme in a language's phonological inventory. Feature values use +/- notation or 0 for unspecified. Multiple inventories may exist per language from different sources. Contains 48 distinctive feature columns following a modified version of the Hayes (2009) feature system."
}
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