Universal #1821

Legacy number: 1821

 Number  1816
 Original  The presence of a voiceless dental-alveolar sibilant ejective affricate [”ts‘”] does not occur without a voiced dental-alveolar nasal [n].
 Standardized  IF there is a voiceless dental-alveolar sibilant ejective affricate, THEN there is a voiced dental-alveolar nasal.
 Keywords  affricate, nasal, dental-alveolar, sibilant, ejective, voice
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Maddieson’s UPSID-451 database
 Source  Pericliev (i.p.)

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