Universal #1680

Legacy number: 1680

 Number  1675
 Original  <img src="../img/graphics/1680.gif" alt="">
 Standardized  IF there is a phoneme all of whose allophones are variants of /†/, THEN there is a phoneme whose characteristic variant is /ð/.
 Formula 
 Keywords  dental, fricative, allophone
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Terentjev, includung Islandic, Old Irish, Old Breton (all Celtic), Spain (Romance), Modern Greek (Greek), Shugni-Rushan (Iranian) languages, e.g. Wakhi, and Jazguljami, Avestan (Iranian )
 Source  Terentjev 1969: 127-8

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