| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately small |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Small (2-4) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Moderately high |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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No voicing constrast |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Other |
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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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No laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Moderately complex |
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Tone
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No tones |
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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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Strongly suffixing |
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Reduplication
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Productive full and partial reduplication |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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Two |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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Sex-based |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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Semantic |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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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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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Related for all demonstratives |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person only, but also non-singular |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No person marking |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive prefixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
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Exists |
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Possessive Classification
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No possessive classification |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Object and Verb
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VO |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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No adpositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Genitive-Noun |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Noun-Adjective |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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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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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Active |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Both the A and P arguments |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No zero realization |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A precedes P |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
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Morphological but no compound |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Different |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories
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3 |
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Number of Basic Colour Categories
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3-4 |
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Green and Blue
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Black/green/blue |
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Red and Yellow
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Red/yellow |
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M-T Pronouns
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No M-T pronouns |
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N-M Pronouns
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N-M pronouns, paradigmatic |
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