Universal 944:
- Original
- If nasal and oral vowels merge unconditionally, the phonetic result is always an oral vowel.
- Standardized
- When nasal and oral vowels merge unconditionally, the result is always an oral vowel.
- Keywords
- oral, vowel, nasal
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Greenberg 1966b: 514, based on Ferguson 1963
- Counterexamples
