Universal #1249
Legacy number: 1249
| Number | 1245 |
| Original | The complete elimination of a language’s initial vowels, whether by loss or by consonant problems, is less likely than the complete elimination of a language’s sequences of syllable nuclei. |
| Standardized | The complete elimination of a language’s initial vowels, whether by loss or by consonant problems, is less likely than the complete elimination of a language’s sequences of syllable nuclei. |
| Keywords | syllable structure, consonant, vowel |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | statistical |
| Quality | diachronic |
| Basis | sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971 |
| Source | Bell 1971: 96 |
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