Phones Inventory

This is a guide to create a phones or phonetic inventory of a given language. This is the important first step of a language project and foundation for many subsequent processes, including language acquisition, linguistic analysis, orthdography development, and others. This is also important to the mother tongue speaker that they begin systematically learning the inner working of their own language. This, as many other linguistic analysis, is an iterative process before we finalize the phones inventory. If one establishes phones inventory of a given language, this will significantly help the subsequent analyses.

Data Collection Procedure

Collect linguistic data from the community of mother tongue speakers.

Apprentice Level

Required Skills

• Operate a digital portable recorder
• Recording App on smartphones
• Record according to wordlist
• Fluent in National language/Trade language/Lingua-franca

Specialist Level

Required Skills

• Split sound files into relevant chunks using software application
• Know how to record High Quality sound files in fieldwork context
• Organize Participatory Rapid Word Collection Workshop with the Target Community
• Identify relevant wordlist for data collection

Training & Certification

• Linguistic Technician
• Field Linguist
• Language Surveyor
• Lexicography Technician
• MA in Linguistics
• MA in Linguistics & Translation

Consultant Level

Required Skills

• Conducting Participatory Rapid Word Collection Trainning Workshop for speacilist, MTT and OTT

Training & Certification

• MA in Linguistics
• MA in Linguistics & Translation
• PhD in Linguistics