Rara #7

Legacy number: 7

 Number  7
 Phenomenon  bilabial trill /è/,
(i) prenasalized bilabial stop with trilled release, or
(ii) trilled fricated vowel as syllabic variant of labial fricative
 Found in  (i) Nias (Sundic, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Kele, Titan, and perhaps other members of the Admiralty subgroup (Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian);

(ii) Luquan Yi (Tibeto-Burman, Sino-Tibetan)
 Domain  phonology — phoneme inventory
 Type  rarum
 Keywords  bilabial, trill
 Source  Ladefoged, Peter & Ian Maddieson (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell.
Dryer, Matthew S. (1997). Why statistical universals are better than absolute universals. Chicago Linguistic Society 33, The Panels: 123-145.
 Violates  none

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