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Catalan (Eastern, Barcelona)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Romance

Lat/lon: 41.385064, 2.173403

ISO code: cat

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentaldentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelar
stopp, bt̪, d̪k, g
trillr
tapɾ
fricativefs, zʃ, ʒ
affricatetʃ, dʒ
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantlʎ

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
open-midɛɔ
opena

Diphthongs

/ej/, /ɛw/, /uj/, /ow/, /ja/, /wa/, /jɛ/, /wə/

Licit initial clusters

{p,b,t,d,k,g,f}ɾ, {p,b,k,g,f}l

Source: Carbonell, Joan F.; and Joaquim Llisterri. 1992. Catalan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 22.53–56.

Comments: The initial clusters are described following Wheeler, Max. 2005. The phonology of Catalan. The phonology of the world’s languages. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)