Universal #948
Legacy number: 948
| Number | 945 |
| Original | Of the two vowels i and ü, i may originate from ü but not ü from i. |
| Standardized | When there is i and ü, i may originate from ü but not ü from i. |
| Keywords | high, front, vowel |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | target < source |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | Indo-European languages |
| Source | Bonfante 1945: 91, cited in Greenberg 1966b: 515 |
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