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Universal 872:
- Original
- In initial and final clusters, an unvoiced sonant is never immediately preceded or followed by another unvoiced sonant.
- Standardized
- In initial and final clusters, an unvoiced sonant is never immediately preceded or followed by another unvoiced sonant.
- Keywords
- consonant cluster, final, initial, voice, sonant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964
- Source
- Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 25, Greenberg 1978e: 265, #31]
- Counterexamples
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