Universal #794

Legacy number: 794

 Number  791
 Original  The preferred number of primary nasal consonants in a language is between two and four.
 Standardized  The preferred number of primary nasal consonants in a language is between two and four.
 Keywords  nasal, consonant
 Domain  phonology
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  317 language sample from Nartey 197
 Source  Nartey 1979: 33

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