Chickasaw
WALS coordinates: 34° N, 88° W
spoken in United States
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Moderately small | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Small (2-4) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately high | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/ and lateral obstruent | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Morphology | ||
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Identical | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| Other | ||
| Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks | Other or none | |
