Universal #703

Legacy number: 703

 Number  700
 Original  Languages with nine or more vowels generally have /o/.
 Standardized  IF there are more than eight vowels, THEN /o/ will be among them.
 Keywords  vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 209 languages in Crothers 1978
 Source  Crothers 1978: 135, cited in Holenstein 1985: 125

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