Universal #702

Legacy number: 702

 Number  699
 Original  Languages with eight or more vowels have /e/.
 Standardized  IF there are more than seven vowels, THEN /e/ will be among them.
 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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