Rara #14

Legacy number: 14

 Number  14
 Phenomenon  lack of bilabial nasal and possibly bilabial stops
 Found in  Iroquois; Tlingit (Na-Dene)
 Domain  phonology — phoneme inventory
 Type  rarum
 Keywords  bilabial, nasal, stops
 Source  ? (my LT paper)
 Violates  <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=794"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">,<a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=781"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">?, <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=1088"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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Discussion
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NEED TO SEE PHONEMIC INVENTORY ... there may be more universals violated. Stop inventories with only two places, labial and either dental/alveolar or velar (than both) are rare, too. But for the labial to be missing is by far the rarest.
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
NEED TO SEE PHONEMIC INVENTORY ... there may be more universals violated.

Stop inventories with only two places, labial and either dental/alveolar or velar (than both) are rare, too. But for the labial to be missing is by far the rarest.