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The study of the production and perception of sounds or "phones".

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Can languages restrict their number of distinct syllables when written by syllabaries?

Furthermore, Chinese characters are constructed by combining only 214 radicals, which sometimes are responsible for its phonetics. … And the 10 most used radicals appear in 10,665 characters (or 23% of the dictionary), potentially restricting the phonetics even more. …
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How languages compare with the number of different syllables from all words?

Note: I am not a linguist, please provide any corrections for terminology. I would like to find some approximate data (if it exists) comparing several languages with the number of different syllables …
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