Universal #805
Legacy number: 805
| Number | 802 |
| Original | No language has back consonants without containing front consonants. |
| Standardized | IF there are back consonants, THEN there will be front consonants. |
| Formula | back consonant ⇒ front consonant |
| Keywords | back, front, consonant |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic but presumably diachronically motivated |
| Quality | almost absolute |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Jakobson 1941 |
| Source | Jakobson 1941: 53 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Tahitian (E. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Kasimok-Tartar (Turkic, Altaic)
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