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Universal 1675:

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Universal 1675:

Original
Standardized
IF there is a phoneme all of whose allophones are variants of /†/, THEN there is a phoneme whose characteristic variant is /ð/.
Keywords
dental, fricative, allophone
Domain
phonology
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
languages mentioned in Terentjev, includung Islandic, Old Irish, Old Breton (all Celtic), Spain (Romance), Modern Greek (Greek), Shugni-Rushan (Iranian) languages, e.g. Wakhi, and Jazguljami, Avestan (Iranian )
Source
Terentjev 1969: 127-8
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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