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Universal 856:
- Original
- No combination of a voiced and glottalized consonant is found in either initial or final clusters.
- Standardized
- A voiced and glottalized consonant cannot be combined in either initial or final clusters.
- Keywords
- consonant cluster, initial, final, voice, glottalized
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964
- Source
- Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 17, Greenberg 1978e: 257, #14]
- Counterexamples
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