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Bantu Syllabary

The complete syllable inventories of every calibrated Bantu language — paired with audio recordings and acoustic measurements from amina.ai's contributor platform. Filter by language, country, region, or Guthrie classification. Review syllable grids inline. Download ZIP packs with inventories, row WAVs, per-syllable clips, anonymised speaker manifests, and a per-take measurements CSV.

1 — Filter

Per-language breakdown

ISO	Name	Country	Guthrie	Inv	Recs

2 — Map (preview)

4 — Pack options

Include row WAVs Include per-syllable clip WAVs Include acoustic measurements Only recordings with acoustic analysis

5 — Build & download

6 — Cross-language atlas

Compare phoneme + syllable inventories across multiple languages side-by-side. Pick 2–10 languages to chart their vowel systems, count their consonant onsets, and see which onsets are universal vs language-specific.

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7 — Compare languages (set-theoretic)

Pick at least 2 ISO codes to see which syllables are shared across all of them (intersection), which are unique to each language, and pairwise Jaccard similarity. Higher Jaccard means more overlapping syllable inventory.

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