nonesuch 12: the full gamut of (voiceless) palato-alveolar, alveolar, bilabial, and (dialectally) velar affricates (see Image) Where found German (Germanic, IE) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme…
nonesuch 12
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nonesuch 2
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nonesuch 2: a basic colour term for TURQUOISE Where found Tsakhur (Nakh-Daghestanian) Domain lexicon Subdomain basic terms Keywords colour terms Type nonesuch Universals violated Source…
nonesuch 18
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nonesuch 18: a ternary constraint on prosodic word size: minimal word must be a trimoraic foot Where found Gilbertese (Micronesian) Domain phonology Subdomain foot structure…
nonesuch 3
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nonesuch 3: (a) two basic colour terms for BLUE and LIGHT BLUE (b) and at the same time none for PURPLE Where found (a) Russian,…
nonesuch 19
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nonesuch 19: trimoraic and quadrimoraic syllables as a normal syllable type in the native vocabulary, with moras as prosody-bearing units (not just units of syllabic…
nonesuch 4
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nonesuch 4: two basic colour terms for RED1 and RED2 Where found Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic) Domain lexicon Subdomain basic terms Keywords colour terms Type nonesuch…
rarum 5
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rarum 5: a sizable inventory of basic smell terms, i.e., one with more than two or three items Where found Des(s)ana (Tucanoan, Andean-Equatorial); Totonaca (Totonacan,…
rarum 21
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rarum 21: word-stress on postinitial syllable (or mora) Where found less than 3% of languages, including Araucanian and a few Uto-Aztecan languages (though reconstructed for…
rarum 6
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rarum 6: labial flap /vb/ (See Image) Where found over 60 languages in Africa (Afroasiatic: Chadic; Niger-Congo: esp. Adamawa-Ubangi, also Benue-Congo; Nilo-Saharan: Central Sudanic) and…
rarum 7
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rarum 7: bilabial trill /è/,(i) prenasalized bilabial stop with trilled release, or(ii) trilled fricated vowel as syllabic variant of labial fricative Where found (i) Nias…