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Universal 1094:
- Original
- Nasal consonants tend to share place of articulation properties with stop systems, and glottal features, syllabicity, and accent bearing with liquids.
- Standardized
- Nasal consonants tend to share place of articulation properties with stop systems, and glottal features, syllabicity, and accent bearing with liquids.
- Keywords
- nasal, consonant, stop, liquid
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 106 languages in Crothers 1975
- Source
- Crothers 1975: 159
- Counterexamples
- Gbaya (Adamawa-Ubangian, Niger-Congo) has implosive (preglottalized?) nasals but no corresponding liquids.
