Universal #944

Legacy number: 944

 Number  941
 Original  A nasal syllabic phoneme, apart from borrowings and analogical formations, always results from the loss of a vowel.
 Standardized  A nasal syllabic phoneme, apart from borrowings and analogical formations, always results from the loss of a vowel.
 Keywords  nasal syllabic, vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  target < source
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages in Ferguson 1963
 Source  Ferguson 1963: 59 (XV)

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Discussion
Notes
1. A NASAL SYLLABIC is a nasal phoneme which patterns like a syllable rather than like a consonant or vowel in the language (e.g. Ewe, Xhosa /m/).2. See ##943, 945.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. A NASAL SYLLABIC is a nasal phoneme which patterns like a syllable rather than like a consonant or vowel in the language (e.g. Ewe, Xhosa /m/).

2. See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=943"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=945"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.