Universal #769
Legacy number: 769
| Number | 766 |
| Original | There is a highly significant tendency for languages to have at least one primary fricative. |
| Standardized | There is at least one primary fricative. |
| Keywords | primary, fricative |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | 317 language sample from Nartey 1979 |
| Source | Nartey 1979: 4, cited also in Lass 1984: 154 |
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