Universal 766:
- Original
- There is a highly significant tendency for languages to have at least one primary fricative.
- Standardized
- There is at least one primary fricative.
- Keywords
- primary, fricative
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 317 language sample from Nartey 1979
- Source
- Nartey 1979: 4, cited also in Lass 1984: 154
- Counterexamples
