Alabama

WALS coordinates: 32° 20′ N, 87° 25′ W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Alabama
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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63A Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with' Nominal Syntax
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic Verbal Categories
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117A Predicative Possession Locational Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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131A Numeral Bases Decimal Lexicon
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138A Tea Others Lexicon
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