Have you considered entering all this data into an SQLite database? You could do fast searches based on any features you deem relevant to the phoneme. Using an SQLite editor application you can get started building a database right away. You can add columns as you get the inspiration, along with any tags you want. Putting it all in database tables can really make chaotic linguistic data seem manageable.
My own linguistics project uses mostly SQLite and a number of OrderedDict's based on .plist files. It is all working very nicely, although I haven't tried to deal with any phonetics (yet). -- Gnarlie http://Sectrum.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
