Universal #947

Legacy number: 947

 Number  944
 Original  If nasal and oral vowels merge unconditionally, the phonetic result is always an oral vowel.
 Standardized  When nasal and oral vowels merge unconditionally, the result is always an oral vowel.
 Keywords  oral, vowel, nasal
 Domain  phonology
 Type  unconditional
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Greenberg 1966b: 514, based on Ferguson 1963

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