Universal #700

Legacy number: 700

 Number  697
 Original  <img src="../img/graphics/700.gif" alt="">
 Standardized  IF there are more than five vowels, THEN / C / and also either / ¥ / or / e/ (generally the former) will be among them.
 Formula 
 Keywords  vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  sample of 209 languages in Crothers 1978
 Source  Crothers 1978: 135, cited in Holenstein 1985: 125

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