Rara #101

Legacy number: 101

 Number  101
 Phenomenon  VC as (the only or preferred) syllable type, with VC0CV thus syllabified as VC0C.V rather than as VC0.CV, at least at some level
 Found in  Arrernte, Oykangand, Olgol, Okunjan, Kawarrangg (Pama-Nyungan, Australian); Barra dialect of Gaelic (Celtic, IE)
 Domain  phonology — syllable structure
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  onset
 Source  Sommer, B. A. (1970). An Australian language without CV syllables. International Journal of American Linguistics 36: 57-58.
Breen, Gavan & Rob Pensalfini (1999). Arrernte: A language with no syllable onsets. Linguistic Inquiry 30: 1-25.
Borgstrøm, C. H. (1937). The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap 7.
 Violates  not yet in UA: Onset Maximization

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