Universal #859
Legacy number: 859
| Number | 856 |
| Original | No combination of a voiced and glottalized consonant is found in either initial or final clusters. |
| Standardized | A voiced and glottalized consonant cannot be combined in either initial or final clusters. |
| Keywords | consonant cluster, initial, final, voice, glottalized |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964 |
| Source | Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 17, Greenberg 1978e: 257, #14] |
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