Aleut
WALS coordinates: 54° N, 166° W
spoken in United States
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Alternative Names
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Features
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| 9A | The Velar Nasal | Initial velar nasal | Phonology | comment | |
| 26A | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | Morphology | comment | |
| 30A | Number of Genders | None | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 31A | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 32A | Systems of Gender Assignment | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 33A | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 35A | Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns | Person-number affixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 43A | Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Related for all demonstratives | Nominal Categories |
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| 49A | Number of Cases | 2 cases | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 50A | Asymmetrical Case-Marking | Subtractive-quantitatively asymmetrical | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 51A | Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 52A | Comitatives and Instrumentals | Mixed | Nominal Categories |
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| 53A | Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 54A | Distributive Numerals | Marked by suffix | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 57A | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive suffixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 63A | Noun Phrase Conjunction | 'And' different from 'with' | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 69A | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 81A | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | Word Order | comment | |
| 82A | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order | comment | |
| 83A | Order of Object and Verb | OV | Word Order | comment | |
| 105A | Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 121A | Comparative Constructions | Locational | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 124A | 'Want' Complement Subjects | Desiderative verbal affix | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 129A | Hand and Arm | Different | Lexicon |
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| 130A | Finger and Hand | Different | Lexicon |
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