Universal #858
Legacy number: 858
| Number | 855 |
| Original | No succession of consonants only differing in that one is unvoiced and the other is glottalized occurs in initial or final clusters unless there is a morpheme boundary between them. |
| Standardized | In final or initial clusters, a voiced consonant and its glottalized counterpart can only be adjacent if there is a morpheme boundary between them. |
| Keywords | consonant clusters, initial, final, voice, glottalized |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964 |
| Source | Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 17, Greenberg 1978e: 257, #13] |
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