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Universal 614:
- Original
- When becoming a nasal or determining the place of articulation of adjacent nasals by assimilation, labial velars behave primarily like velars.
- Standardized
- When becoming a nasal or determining the place of articulation of adjacent nasals by assimilation, labial velars behave primarily like velars.
- Keywords
- labial, velar, nasal
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Ohala 1979
- Source
- Ohala 1979: 45
- Counterexamples
Good examples: Toura (Mande), Efik, Yoruba (both Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo), Kuwaa (Kru, Niger-Congo), Tenango Otomi (Oto-Manguean) , Sa’a, Kwara ’Ae (both E. Oceanic, Austronesian).