User:Shabidoo/sandbox/romance

Core

 * 1) /e/ and /o/ are absend in Sicilian
 * 2) all vowel qualities have nasal equivalents in Portuguese
 * 3) the core vowels are the only vowels in Spanish and Sardinian

Common sounds
All languages except Spanish and Sardinian include these sounds in addition to the core sounds

Other vowels
ɨ romanian æ corsican ʊ portuguese ɐ portuguese o with a cross through in corsican Romanian, Some dialects of Catalan, Napolitan

French and Occitan Sounds
French and Occitan have an extensive vowel inventory uncommon among Romance languages. They include the following monothongs and nasals.

French is the only notable romance language where long and short vowels have notable distinctive qualities. There are a small inventory of minimal pairs between long and short vowels (also unique to french). French has unique open vowels unknown to other romance languages French has a large inventory of dipthongs many of which are not used in other romance languages

Core Consonants

 * 1) Not in Spanish or Galician (ʃ in some Galician dialects)
 * 2) Not in corsican
 * 3) Not in Romanian
 * 4) Not in Sicilian
 * 5) Not in French

Unique
ð sardinian x spanish, portuguese ʁ portuguese, french R portuguese h romanian ɣ spanish, sardinian c ɟ corsican ɹ sicilian kʷ ɡʷ corsican ʐ sicilian ç sicilian ʈ sicilian ɽ sicilian