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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.
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). The initial sample of 317 languages drew on the work of the Stanford Phonology Archive (Crothers et al 1979), but decisions regarding the phonemic status and ...
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The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. Data on the phonological systems of 451 languages, with programs to access it, by Ian Maddieson and Kristin Precoda. This is an elderly DOS program (and thus Windows only), neither of whose developers are still at UCLA, and no support is offered.
UPSID (UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database) K-ToBI (Korean Tones & Break Indices) CELEX; Phonation database (languages with contrastive phonation) physiology resources in the lab; online digitized Xray and other films from our collection
Inventory Language # segments # vowels # consonants # tones Contributor Cite PHOIBLE 2.0 edited by Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel ...
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.
For example: UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. 2014. Lelemi sound inventory (UPSID). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel & Wright, Richard (eds.) PHOIBLE Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. http://phoible.org/inventories/view/441.
