Universal 883:
- Original
- All languages have a high or a lower high front vowel.
- Standardized
- All languages have a high or a lower high front vowel.
- Keywords
- high, low, front, vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 170 languages surveyed in Sedlak 1969
- Source
- Sedlak 1969: 31
- Counterexamples
