Universal #850
Legacy number: 850
| Number | 847 |
| Original | In final clusters the presence of at least one combination of stop + stop implies the presence of at least one combination of fricative + stop. |
| Standardized | In final clusters, IF there is at least one combination of stop + stop, THEN there is at least one combination of fricative + stop. |
| Keywords | consonant cluster, final, stop, fricative, phoneme order |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964 |
| Source | Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 15, Greenberg 1978e: 254, #8] |
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