Universal #1859

Legacy number: 1859

 Number  1854
 Original  Languages tend to have laterals after grave consonants and nonlaterals after acute.
 Standardized  Languages tend to have laterals after grave consonants and nonlaterals after acute.
 Keywords  liquid, lateral, acute, grave, consonant, vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Bhat 1974
 Source  Bhat 1974: 80

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