Universal 941:
- Original
- A nasal syllabic phoneme, apart from borrowings and analogical formations, always results from the loss of a vowel.
- Standardized
- A nasal syllabic phoneme, apart from borrowings and analogical formations, always results from the loss of a vowel.
- Keywords
- nasal syllabic, vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- target < source
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages in Ferguson 1963
- Source
- Ferguson 1963: 59 (XV)
- Counterexamples
1. A NASAL SYLLABIC is a nasal phoneme which patterns like a syllable rather than like a consonant or vowel in the language (e.g. Ewe, Xhosa /m/).2. See ##943, 945.