Chehalis (Upper)
WALS coordinates: 46° 35′ N, 123° W
spoken in United States
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Moderately large | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Small (2-4) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | High | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | Uvular stops and continuants | |
| Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives only | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Complex | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Morphology | ||
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | Indirect only | |
| Coding of Evidentiality | Verbal affix or clitic | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation | Both | |
| Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation | A/Fin and A/Cat | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Identical | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
