How many phonemes do they have in their native language?
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How many phonemes do they have in their native language?
Each language has its own pronunciation system
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Re: How many phonemes do they have in their native language?
You might find the WALS information on consonants and vowels interesting.
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Re: How many phonemes do they have in their native language?
You might want to google "phonological inventory" and also keep in mind that all language have dialects so some people will pronounce a word with a different phoneme(s) than another person (see for example the merry, Mary, marry distinction in some dialects of English).
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