Universal #882

Legacy number: 882

 Number  879
 Original  A language which has any affricates includes among them at least one in the dental-alveolar or alveo-palatal region.
 Standardized  IF there are affricates, THEN there is at least one in the dental-alveolar of alveo-palatal region.
 Keywords  consonant cluster, initial, dental, alveolar, alveo-palatal
 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: 28, Greenberg 1978c: 269, #40]

← Back to Universals Archive

Discussion
Counterexamples
Notes
implicational version:IF there are affricates other than dental-alveolar or alveo-palatal ones, THEN there are affricates in the dental-alveolar of alveo-palatal region.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
implicational version:
IF there are affricates other than dental-alveolar or alveo-palatal ones, THEN there are affricates in the dental-alveolar of alveo-palatal region.