Table 1. Lists of consonant phonemes from the phsource ranked by frequency up to the 20th position. The percentage values are calculated from the 913 languages

Phoneme Frequency (%) Phoneme Frequency (%)
m 902 (98.8) ɡ 706 (77.3)
k 861 (94.3) d 629 (68.9)
n 837 (91.7) ŋ 615 (67.4)
j 832 (91.1) f 607 (66.5)
s 805 (88.2) h 582 (63.7)
w 795 (87.1) ɲ 534 (58.5)
p 782 (85.7) r 480 (52.6)
l 764 (83.7) t̠ʃ 442 (48.4)
b 754 (82.6) ʃ 414 (45.3)
t 718 (78.6) z 405 (44.4)