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Universal 783:
- Original
- In a given language, the number of primary oral affricates will be less than the number of primary oral stops.
- Standardized
- The number of primary oral affricates will be less than the number of primary oral stops.
- Keywords
- oral, affricate, stop, primary
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- almost absolute
- Basis
- 317 language sample from Nartey 1979
- Source
- Jakobson 1962: 364, also Nartey 1979: 23
- Counterexamples
- Popoloc (Oto-Manguean) (Yasugi 1995: 66)
