Universal 1099:
- Original
- If a language has nasal vowels, it will have at least three, one of which is always a low vowel [ã].
- Standardized
- IF there are nasal vowels, THEN there are at least three, one of which is always a low vowel [ã].
- Keywords
- nasal, vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 55 languages in Ferguson 1974, languages in Ferguson 1975
- Source
- Ferguson 1974: 7, Ferguson 1975: 178
- Counterexamples