rarissimum 28: phonemic secondary ‘labio-palatalization’
(simultaneous labial rounding and palatal constriction)
- Where found
- Twi (Kwa, Niger-Congo); French (Romance, IE)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- phoneme inventory
- Keywords
- palatalization
- Type
- rarissimum
- Universals violated
- none
- Source
- De Jong, Kenneth & Samuel Gyasi Obeng (2000). Labio-palatalization in Twi: Contrastive, quantal, and organizational factors producing an uncommon sound. Language 76: 682-703.
