nonesuch 9: apical trills at three places of articulation (fronted alveolar, alveolar, retroflex) (see Image), both without and with palatalization Where found Toda (Dravidian) Domain…
nonesuch 9
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rarissimum 10
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rarissimum 10: velar fricative (see Image) as the sole fricative (if this is what it is), rather than the expected /s/ Where found Iwaidjian (non-Pama…
nonesuch 11
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nonesuch 11: eight or nine liquids, with three rhotics and five or six laterals Where found Iwaidjian (non-Pama Nyungan, Australian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory…
nonesuch 12
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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…
rarum 14
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rarum 14: lack of bilabial nasal and possibly bilabial stops Where found Iroquois; Tlingit (Na-Dene) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords bilabial, nasal, stops Type…
rarissimum 15
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rarissimum 15: three-way quantity contrast of both vowels and consonants Where found Estonian (?), Livonian (?), Saami (?) (all Uralic) Domain phonology Subdomain quantity Keywords…
nonesuch 16
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nonesuch 16: phonemic contrast between diphthong and vowel followed by glide (see Image) Where found Maastricht Dutch (Germanic, IE) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords…
nonesuch 1
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nonesuch 1: b-ö-f ‘ox’ Where found French Domain lexicon Subdomain sound-meaning matching Keywords cattle Type nonesuch Universals violated none Source Saussure, Ferdinand de (1985). Cours…
rarum (or infrequentale?) 17: Resolved Moraic Trochee as foot type Where found (esp. older) Germanic (IE); Cayuvava (Andean-Equatorial) (?) Domain phonology Subdomain foot structure Keywords…
rarum 29
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rarum 29: use of metathesis (CV ~ VC) for grammatical purposes, viz. to express distinctions of aspect and/or definiteness, or of word-class (noun-verb) Where found…