Universal 791:
- Original
- The preferred number of primary nasal consonants in a language is between two and four.
- Standardized
- The preferred number of primary nasal consonants in a language is between two and four.
- Keywords
- nasal, consonant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 317 language sample from Nartey 197
- Source
- Nartey 1979: 33
- Counterexamples