Feature Combination

You may combine this feature with another one. [help]

Help

Select the feature for comparison by typing its name or number in the form below.

Map Configuration

You may configure the appearance of the map using the tools below and then hit

Select icons for the values [help]

Help

You may select different icons to display for each value of the feature by clicking on the icon and then choosing from the palette of icons which will appear.

Clicking the "show map" button will load a map showing the feature's datapoints using the currently selected icons.

Clicking the "languages" links will display a list of all languages which are recorded having the corresponding value for this feature, and links to references which corroborate these recordings.

To reset the icons to the default values click here .

Choose the size of the icons on the map [help]

Help

Move the slider to adjust the size of the icons to be drawn on the map.

Choose the drawing order of values [help]

Help

By default, icons for values will be drawn by decreasing number of languages, i.e. icons for the value with the fewest languages on top.

Reorder the values by dragging them to the layer you want the icons drawn.

  • two-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /V/) with nasal spreading (4)
  • four-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /ṽː/ vs. /V/ v /Vː/) with nasal spreading (4)
  • four-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /ṽː/ vs. /V/ vs. /Vː/) without nasal spreading (5)
  • two-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /V/) without nasal spreading (7)
  • no nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (20)

Feature 10B: Nasal Vowels in West Africa

by John Hajek

This feature is discussed in chapter 10.

Values

 no nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (20 languages)
two-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /V/) without nasal spreading (7 languages)
two-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /V/) with nasal spreading (4 languages)
four-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /ṽː/ vs. /V/ vs. /Vː/) without nasal spreading (5 languages)
four-way nasal vs. oral vowel contrast (/ṽ/ vs. /ṽː/ vs. /V/ v /Vː/) with nasal spreading (4 languages)
  total: 40