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Universal 536:
- Original
- If in a language, in any sum the smaller addend precedes the larger, then the same order holds for all smaller numbers expressed by addition.
- Standardized
- IF in any sum the smaller addend precedes the larger, THEN the same order holds for all smaller numbers expressed by addition.
- Keywords
- numeral
- Domain
- word formation
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
- Source
- Greenberg 1978a: 273 (#26)
- Counterexamples
1. See a more general statement in #1357. 2. Cf. also #539.