Universal #946
Legacy number: 946
| Number | 943 |
| Original | A merger of oral vowels always presupposes the merger of the corresponding nasal vowels if they exist. |
| Standardized | IF there is a merger of oral vowels, THEN there is a merger of the corresponding nasal vowels if they exist. |
| Keywords | oral, vowel, nasal, consonant |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages in Greenberg 1966b |
| Source | Greenberg 1966b: 514, based on Ferguson 1963 |
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