The programs listed below are being developed by Rod Casali at the Canada Institute of Linguistics. Please address questions, suggestions and bug reports to me at rod_casali@sil.org.
Random Sound Inventory is a program that generates consonant and vowel sound inventories consisting, respectively, of random sets of IPA symbols. It also generates sets of hypothetical words that consist of random sequences of these symbols, with no constraints on their combinatory possibilities. It is intended as a teaching device to introduce the subject matter of phonology by illustrating how real language sound systems differ from simple collections of sounds with unrestricted patterning. For comparison purposes, the program can display phonemic inventories from four real languages: English, Korean, (modern) Hebrew, and Thai.
Install Random Sound Inventory
Download Random Sound Inventory as zip file
Download PhonWrite as zip file
Current Dekereke build is 1_0_0_97, modified 8/26/10. View summary of recent changes.