rarum (or infrequentale?) 131: a phoneme inventory with more vowels than consonants (10 : 8)
- Where found
- Hawaiian, and probably other Polynesian lgs (Austronesian)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- phoneme inventory
- Keywords
- vowel, consonant
- Type
- rarum (or infrequentale?)
- Universals violated
- Source
- Hagège, Claude (1982). La structure des langues. (Que sais-je?, 2006.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, p. 20.
Hagège also mentions Wichita (Caddoan) as a runner-up with as many as 8 vowels and as few as 9 consonants.