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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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nonesuch 104: secondary word-stress on odd-numbered word-final syllables, but only if the word is morphologically complex, irrespective of its morphological composition; no secondary stress in…
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nonesuch 105: stress accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody, with contrastive tone on both stressed and unstressed syllables Where found…
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nonesuch 106: pitch accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody Where found Papiamentu (Iberian-based creole) Domain phonology Subdomain word-stress, tone Keywords…
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nonesuch 107: tonal patterns (initial lowering delayed by one mora, tonal alternations in inflected verb forms and in combinations of nouns with following particles) dependent…
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rarissimum 108: consonant ablaut (aka “permutation” or “polarity”): phonological alternation of stem-initial consonants conditioned by suffix Where found Fulani and some other Atlantic languages, but…
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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…