Universal #1247
Legacy number: 1247
| Number | 1243 |
| Original | The loss of all a language’s initial vowels (or prothesis of a consonant before them) is significantly less likely than a language with no initial vowels acquiring them by consonant loss or vowel prothesis. |
| Standardized | The loss of all a language’s initial vowels (or prothesis of a consonant before them) is significantly less likely than a language with no initial vowels acquiring them by consonant loss or vowel prothesis. |
| Keywords | initial vowel, consonant |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971 |
| Source | Bell 1971: 94 |
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