The Dutch segment inventory consists of vowels and consonants. Most of these segments can both stand on their own and form complex segments with each other (under certain restrictions). This will be dealt with in the following sections:

• The Dutch vowel inventory
  • The unrounded high front vowel /i/
  • The rounded high front-central vowel /y/
  • The unrounded high-mid front vowel /e/
  • The rounded high-mid front-central vowel /ø/
  • The unrounded low front-central vowel /a/
  • The rounded high-mid back vowel /o/
  • The rounded high back vowel /u/
  • The mid-central vowel /ə/
  • The unrounded high-mid front-central vowel /ɪ/
  • The rounded high-mid front-central vowel /ʏ/
  • The unrounded low-mid front vowel /ɛ/
  • The unrounded low back vowel /ɑ/
  • The rounded low-mid back vowel /ɔ/
  • The unrounded front diphthong /ɛi/
  • The rounded front-central diphthong /œy/
  • The back-central diphthong /ɑu/
• The Dutch consonant inventory
  • The bilabial plosives /p/ and /b/
  • The alveolar plosives /t/ and /d/
  • The velar plosives /k/ and /g/
  • The labiodental fricatives /f/ and /v/
  • The alveolar fricatives /s/ and /z/
  • The velar fricatives /x/ and /ɣ/
  • The glottal fricative /h/
  • The bilabial nasal /m/
  • The nasal /n/
  • The velar nasal /ŋ/
  • The rhotic liquid /r/
  • The lateral liquid /l/
  • The labiodental glide /ʋ/
  • The palatal approximant /j/
• Segment frequencies of consonants and vowels
  • Segment frequencies of vowels in Dutch
  • Segment frequencies of consonants in Dutch
  • Segment frequencies of consonants per syllable position
  • Distribution of consonants in onset and coda positions