Editing Front vowel (section)

== Occurrences ==

According to [[PHOIBLE]], /{{IPA link|i}}/ is the most common phonemic front vowel, occurring in around 92% of inventories, while /{{IPA link|ɶ}}/ is the least common, occurring in only one inventory on the database.<ref name="phoible"/>
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|+ Frequency of front vowels<ref name="phoible">{{Cite book|location=Jena|editor=Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy|publisher=Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History|title=PHOIBLE 2.0|url=https://phoible.org|year=2019}}</ref>
! Vowel !! %
|-
| /{{IPA link|i}}/ || 92
|-
| /{{IPA link|a}}/ || 88
|-
| /{{IPA link|e}}/ || 61
|-
| /{{IPA link|ɛ}}/ || 37
|-
| /{{IPA link|ɪ}}/ || 15
|-
| /{{IPA link|æ}}/ || 7
|-
| /{{IPA link|y}}/ || 6
|-
| /{{IPA link|ø}}/ || 3
|-
| /{{IPA link|œ}}/ || 3
|-
| /{{IPA link|ʏ}}/ || 1
|-
| /{{IPA link|ɶ}}/ || 0{{efn|Of the phonological inventories 
 listed on PHOIBLE, ɶ only occurs in [[Northern Altai]]}}
|}

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