Rara #15

Legacy number: 15

 Number  15
 Phenomenon  three-way quantity contrast of both vowels and consonants
 Found in  Estonian (?), Livonian (?), Saami (?) (all Uralic)
 Domain  phonology — quantity
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  vowel, consonant
 Source  Lehiste, Ilse (1966). Consonant Quantity and Phonological Units in Estonian. The Hague: Mouton.
 Violates  none

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to some extent dependent on analysis
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
to some extent dependent on analysis