Universal #759
Legacy number: 759
| Number | 756 |
| Original | I know of no language with more than four injective obstruents. |
| Standardized | There are at most four injective obstruents. |
| Keywords | consonant, obstruent, injective |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | 150 phonological descriptions examined by Greenberg 1970 |
| Source | Greenberg 1970: 128 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Gutob, Remo and Pareng group of Munda languages (Austroasiatic) (Pinnow 1959: 44).Greenberg claims this is probably not a real exception due to phonetically unreliable data.
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