Universal 699:
- Original
- Languages with eight or more vowels have /e/.
- Standardized
- IF there are more than seven vowels, THEN /e/ 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
