nonesuch 132: a phoneme inventory with almost 40 times as many consonants as vowels
- Where found
- Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- phoneme inventory
- Keywords
- vowel, consonant
- Type
- nonesuch
- Universals violated
- Source
- Hagège, Claude (1982). La structure des langues. (Que sais-je?, 2006.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, p. 20.
Hagège attributes 2 vowels and 73 consonants to Ubykh, which has also gone on record as having no phonemic vowels at all (on an implausible analysis).