Universal 1765:
- Original
- Nasal effacement applies preferentially to weak nasals, thus to velar nasals in preference to dental or labial nasals.
- Standardized
- IF dental or labial nasals are effaced [deleted?}, THEN velar nasals are deleted too.
- Keywords
- nasal, consonant, velar, labial, dental, deletion
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- Indo-European languages and Finnish
- Source
- Foley 1977: 66
- Counterexamples
For more general statements of the same nature about consonant deletion cf. ##1767, 1768.