Universal 771:
- Original
- The preferred number of primary fricatives in a given language is two.
- Standardized
- The preferred number of primary fricatives in a given language is two.
- Keywords
- fricative
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 317 language sample from Nartey 1979
- Source
- Nartey 1979: 10
- Counterexamples
Primary fricatives are those speech sounds produced by the narrowing of two articulators so as to produce a turbulent air stream. (This excludes [h]). (Nartey 1979: 3).