Universal #719
Legacy number: 719
| Number | 716 |
| Original | Systems in which high tones are marked are more frequent than systems in which low tones are marked. |
| Standardized | More frequently, when tone is privative, high tone is marked relative to low tone, rather than the other way round. |
| Formula | |
| Keywords | tone, level tone, high, low, markedness |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | languages in Maddieson 1978 |
| Source | Maddieson 1978: 342 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Hausa (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), Korku (Munda, Austroasiatic), Mandekan (Mande, Niger-Congo), Ciluba (Bantu, Niger-Congo) (Maddieson 1978)
Notes
Cf. #712.
Comment
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=712"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">
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