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      • The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (or UPSID) is a statistical survey of the phoneme inventories in 451 of the world's languages. The database was created by American phonetician Ian Maddieson for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1984 and has been updated several times.
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  1. phoible.org · contributors · UPSIDPHOIBLE 2.0

    Contributor UPSID: UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. In the early 1980's, Ian Maddieson developed the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID), a computer-accessible database of contrastive segment inventories (Maddieson 1984).

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      Thanks to Marilyn Vihman for providing the Stanford...

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      File types afbo_dataset.cldf.zip Dataset in CLDF...

    • Amharic

      AMHARIC (UPSID 219), 37 segments. Amharic (UZ 2156), 68...

    • Irish

      PHOIBLE 2.0 edited by Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel is...

    • Russian

      RUSSIAN (UPSID 530), 38 segments. Russian (Standard) (EA...

    • Muinane

      Macroarea: South America: Inventories. MUINANE (UPSID 256),...

    • Romanian

      ROMANIAN (UPSID 527), 32 segments. Romanian (Standard) (EA...

    • Murle

      MURSI (UPSID 473), 26 segments. murle (AA 793), 34 segments....

    • Beembe

      BEEMBE (UPSID 251), 26 segments. Glottocode: beem1239; ISO...

    • Sandawe

      SANDAWE (UPSID 532), 54 segments. Sandawe (GM 1652), 64...

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  3. An exception to the “one doculect per inventory” rule arises for inventories that were originally part of a curated phonological database such as UPSID (Maddieson, 1984; Maddieson & Precoda, 1990) or SPA (Crothers, Lorentz, Sherman, & Vihman, 1979).

  4. This site is a (hopefully) simple user interface to the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID). This Database was compiled by Ian Maddieson and Kristin Precoda (cf. Maddieson, 1984) and contains information on the distribution of 919 different segments in 451 languages.

  5. The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (or UPSID) is a statistical survey of the phoneme inventories in 451 of the world's languages. The database was created by American phonetician Ian Maddieson for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1984 and has been updated several times.

  6. PHOIBLE is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample. Release 2.0 from 2019 includes 3020 inventories that contain 3183 segment types found in 2186 distinct languages.

  7. Aug 13, 2005 · UPSID—the UCLA phonological segment inventory database—is a database containing the phoneme inventories of a large genetically based sample of languages [I. Maddieson, Patterns of Sounds (1984)]. Each phoneme is specified in terms of a comprehensive set of phonetic features.

  8. Aug 4, 2010 · The database is known formally as the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database, and for convenience is referred to by the acronym UPSID. UPSID has been used to investigate a number of hypothesized phonological universals and “universal tendencies”.