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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ubykh, a North-West Caucasian language, has the largest consonant inventory of all documented languages that do not use clicks, and also has the most disproportional ratio of phonemic consonants to vowels. It also possesses consonants in at least eight, perhaps nine, basic places of articulation. Ubykh has 29 distinct fricative phonemes, 27 sibilants, and 20 uvular consonants, more than any other documented language. Some Khoisan languages, such as CEXoo, may have larger consonant inventories due to their extensive use of click consonants, although some analyses (see for instance Traill (1985)) view a large proportion of the clicks in these languages as clusters, which would reduce the number of phonemes in those languages.

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