PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. WALS documents a powerful distributional tendency, not a universal law: 110 sampled languages have Sinitic cha-derived forms, 84 have Min Nan te-derived forms, and 36 belong to neither class.
/tiː/ · noun
The English name of the beverage, carried through the Dutch maritime network from a Southern Min form of the Chinese word 茶.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Counts the cha, te, and other classes and explicitly documents exceptions to the route-level tendency.
Chapter 138, values and discussionSET-U presents maritime and overland routes as tendencies and keeps the “other” class visible.