Universal #1095

Legacy number: 1095

 Number  1091
 Original  If there are X stop and affricate positions, then the number of nasal positions will not exceed X.
 Standardized  IF there are n stop and affricate positions, THEN there will not be more than n nasal positions.
 Keywords  nasal, oral, stop, affricate
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 106 languages in Crothers 1975
 Source  Crothers 1975: 157

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Discussion
Counterexamples
/m/ but no labial stop: Aleut (Eskimo-Aleut), Fijian (Remote Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Chasta-Costa, Hupa (Athabaskan) (Trubetskoy 1969);nasal palatal but no palatal stop or affricate: French (Indo-European), Diegueño (Hokan), Hopi (Uto-Aztecan), Javanese (Sundic, Western Malayo-Polynesian), Chamorro (Chamorro, Western Malayo-Polynesian); possibly Maori (Remote Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian) which has some discrepancy in position between /n/ and /t/.
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