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Phonemic Overrepresentation and Underrepresentation in Certain Type of Languages
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? Yaali Annar The Gote
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Ever wondered what phonemes are over represented in language with front rounded vowel?

Phoneme Frequency  Frequency  Difference 
        In Subset  In All
f       68.18      53.18       15.00
v       45.45      32.79       12.66
z       46.36      35.10       11.26
x       30.91      19.89       11.02
ʒ       25.45      15.46       9.99
ɣ       24.55      14.65       9.89
s̪       13.64      4.61        9.02
ts      35.45      26.68       8.77
l       81.82      73.75       8.07
tʰ      20.91      13.28       7.63


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I also find some coincidences. For example, click languages are likely to have ejective, but the reverse is not correct. There is a coincidence between ejective language and uvular language, however. The following are the overrepresented phonemes in language with uvular phonemes and we can see that ejectives makes the list, just like the way /q/ makes into the list in overrpresented phonemes in language with ejective phonemes.

Also oddly, /ʃ/

Phoneme Frequency  Frequency  Difference 
        In Subset  In All
q       59.65       8.48       51.17
χ       45.61       6.48       39.13
x       44.30       19.89      24.41
ʃ       64.47       41.52      22.95
ʁ       23.25       3.30       19.94
qʼ      22.81       3.24       19.57
kʼ      27.63       9.41       18.22
tʼ      24.12       7.23       16.89
pʼ      23.68       6.92       16.76
ħ       19.30       2.74       16.56
t̠ʃʼ     21.93       6.92       15.01
t̠ʃ      64.04       50.75      13.29
tsʼ     17.98       5.11       12.87
ʕ       14.91       2.12       12.79
ʒ       28.07       15.46      12.61
χʷ      14.47       2.06       12.42
qʰ      14.47       2.06       12.42
ʔ       57.46       45.95      11.51
xʷ      14.91       3.43       11.48
qʷ      11.84       1.68       10.16