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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately small |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Average (5-6) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Average |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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In plosives alone |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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None missing in /p t k b d g/ |
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Uvular Consonants
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None |
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Glottalized Consonants
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No glottalized consonants |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Tone
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No tones |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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Penultimate |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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No weight |
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Rhythm Types
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Trochaic |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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All present |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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None |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Weakly prefixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural word |
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Definite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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Binary politeness distinction |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Epistemic Possibility
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Other |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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VOS |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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VS |
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Order of Object and Verb
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VO |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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VOX |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Noun-Genitive |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Noun-Adjective |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Noun-Demonstrative |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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No dominant order |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Initial subordinator word |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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VO and Prepositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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VO and NRel |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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VO and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Predicative Possession
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Topic |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Verbal encoding |
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Nominal and Locational Predication
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Different |
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
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Impossible |
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Comparative Constructions
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Particle |
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