rarissimum 15: three-way quantity contrast of both vowels and consonants
- Where found
- Estonian (?), Livonian (?), Saami (?) (all Uralic)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- quantity
- Keywords
- vowel, consonant
- Type
- rarissimum
- Universals violated
- none
- Source
- Lehiste, Ilse (1966). Consonant Quantity and Phonological Units in Estonian. The Hague: Mouton.
to some extent dependent on analysis