Explore the alphabets.
Each inventory contains real linguistic units. The L26 score is normalized to 26 for comparison; inventory sizes vary.
Bemba
480 syllables ↗Kinyarwanda
490 syllables ↗Luvale
245 syllables ↗Other benchmark inventories
English: 26 letters · Mandarin Pinyin: 412 base syllables and 1,642 toned syllables, according to this board edition.
Declared structure and available training exposure differ across languages. These differences belong in the interpretation of every result.
Every released FSI is a future L26 track.
BantuNomics has released 459 FSIs — each the complete, independently established operating alphabet of one Bantu language. 3 of them (Bemba, Kinyarwanda, Luvale) are on today’s board. The other 456, across 16 Guthrie zones, are candidates for future versions of L26 — each to be scored on its own inventory, under the same strict PASS / FAIL rule.
Candidates are not a schedule. Counts come from the BantuNomics language directory; inventories are never published.