Universal 697:
- Original
- Standardized
- IF there are more than five vowels, THEN / C / and also either / ¥ / or / e/ (generally the former) will be among them.
- Keywords
- vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- sample of 209 languages in Crothers 1978
- Source
- Crothers 1978: 135, cited in Holenstein 1985: 125
- Counterexamples
