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Tolomako has either 10 or 11 consonants: /m n p t k (s) ts β ɣ r l/. Wikipedia lists its phonemic inventory without /s/ but it also has a sample written with a single <s> in it. However, it appears before an <i> so I dunno if it's allophonic or what

One of the linguists who did fieldwork on it says it has /s/.

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Since I talked about Skou elsewhere, let's add Barupu here as it's missing from the list: /p t k b r m n j w/, 9 consonant phonemes in total.

It has /b/ as its only voiced stop but this isn't really remarkable at all as /r/ groups as the voiced variant of /t/.

Another one from the same family is the Waromo dialect of Vanimo. It appears to have /p t ʔ b d m n ɲ s ɺ j w/ (12 in total), though the SIL sheet is very vague about the dialectal distribution of the phonemes.

So I've redone the frequency analysis. Note that the duplicate analyses were not separated. These categories are possibly not strictly speaking correct with how the phonemes were analyzed (at least w.r.t. the fricatives and resonants). Also, beware of underspecified rhotics.

Plosives
/p/ - 153
/pˠ/ - 1
/b/ - 63
/ɓ/ - 1
/t/ - 174
/tʰ/ - 2
/d/ - 54
/ɗ/ - 2
/c/ - 4
/ɟ/ - 6
/k/ - 173
/kʰ/ - 2
/kʷ/ - 16
/g/ - 47
/gʷ/ - 1
/q/ - 2
/ʔ/ - 80
/ʔː/ - 1

Affricates
/tʙ/ - 1
/ts/ - 15
/dz/ - 1
/tʃ/ - 38
/dʒ/ - 11
/gʟ/ - 1

Nasals
/m/ - 145
/mˠ/ - 1
/n/ - 144
/ɲ/ - 12
/ŋ/ - 46

Fricatives
/ɸ/ - 8
/β/ - 18
/βˠ/ - 1
/f/ - 25
/v/ - 15
/θ/ - 4
/ð/ - 3
/s/ - 110
/z/ - 5
/ɮ/ - 1
/ʃ/ - 16
/ʒ/ - 1
/ç/ - 1
/ʝ/ - 3
/x/ - 8
/ɣ/ - 4
/ʁ/ - 1
/h/ - 9

Resonants
/ʍ/ - 1
/w/ - 122
/ʙ/ - 1
/ʋ/ - 2
/l/ - 42
/r/ - 110
/ɺ/ - 1
/ɾ/ - 1
/ɭ/ - 2
/ɽ/ - 1
/ɰ/ - 2
/j/ - 105

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Underspecifying the rhotics was a deliberate choice on my part, since I didn't feel like copying and pasting the tap character.

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Would it be more accurate to say that 113 langs had rhotics, or that (113 - x) langs had rhotics and, of these, x langs had more than one?

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I'd say the former. Maybe spell out explicitly that (113-x) only had one.

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Found a new one!

Nakanai: /p t k b d g m β s h l r/
This comes from , who analyze the glides as being allophones of the high vowels. I'd believe it.

EDIT: And another!
Inanwatan has /p t k ʔ b d g f s m n/.

Hawaiian has /p k ? m n h w~v/. There is a t gap from a sound change.

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It's already been counted.

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You didn't even check the first post of the thread?

Old Basque is often analysed with 9 consonants : /p t l r k s z n h/ I believe. A counterexample to the /p n/ implies /m/ rule. The modern reflexes of all stops are voiced unless doubled, so one could propose they were voiced in Old Basque as well. (The Trask Basque dictionary does this, and even leaves out /h/, setting it to 8 consonants, but says /h/ existed as a suprasegmental feature.)

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Update. Haven't added anywhere near all the eligible languages in PHOIBLE but it's a start.

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Abau has /m n p k s h ɾ j w/ 8 consonants
Ache has /m p mb t̪ n̪d̪ k ŋɡ t̠ʃ d̠ʒ β ɺ̪/ 10 consonants
Andoque has /ɲ p b t d ɟ k ɸ s h ɾ/ 11 consonants
Bariai has /m n ŋ p b t d k g s r/ 11 consonants
Bandjalang has /m n n̠ ŋ b d d̠ʒ g l r j w/ 12 consonants
Cherokee has /m n d dz g ʔ ʃ h l j w/ 11 consonants
Comanche has /m n p t̪ t̪s̪ k kʷ ʔ s h j w/ 12 consonants and phonemic voiceless vowels.
from PHOIBLE! I copied the word PHOIBLE and I am amazed!!!

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Most of those are already on the list. Please check the OP at least before you decide to post something

There's only one that isn't on the list, and there's no point digging through PHOIBLE because you can sort by consonants. I'm going to add everything in there eventually.

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bandjalang has been on the list for months, do you not know how to use ctrl+f

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