Universal 700:
- Original
- Languages with nine or more vowels generally have /o/.
- Standardized
- IF there are more than eight vowels, THEN /o/ will be among them.
- Keywords
- vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 209 languages in Crothers 1978
- Source
- Crothers 1978: 135, cited in Holenstein 1985: 125
- Counterexamples
