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rarissimum 124

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rarissimum 124: voiceless apico-dental plosive followed by a voiceless bilabial trill behaving as a single segment
(see Image)

Where found
in about a dozen words each in Wari’ and Oro Win (Chapakuran, Arawakan, Andean-Equatorial)
Domain
phonology
Subdomain
phoneme inventory
Keywords
apico-dental plosive, bilabial trill, complex segments
Type
rarissimum
Universals violated
none
Source
Ladefoged, Peter & Daniel Everett (1996). The status of phonetic rarities. Language 72: 794-800.