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Universal 1089:
- Original
- Nearly all languages have contrasting labial and dental nasals.
- Standardized
- Nearly all languages have contrasting labial and dental nasals.
- Keywords
- nasal, consonant, labial, dental
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- almost absolute
- Basis
- sample of 106 languages in Crothers 1975
- Source
- Crothers 1975: 155
- Counterexamples
- Amerind: Achumawi (Hokan), Apinaye (Ge-Pano), Barasano (Tucanoan), Mixtec (Oto-Manguean), Mura (Paezan), Pawnee (Caddoan), Arapaho (Algonquian), Makah, Nitinat (both Wakashan), Quileute (Chimakuan), Seneca (Iroquoian), Yuchi (isolate), Clallam, Lkungen, dialects of Halkomelem Salish such as Chilliwack, Duwamish, Snoqualmie, Tillamook, Twana (all Salish) (Thompson and Thompson 1972: 451); Hakka (Chinese, Sino-Tibetan), Lakes Plain (Papuan), Rotokas (E. Papuan), Palauan (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian)