Dahalo
WALS coordinates: 2° 20′ S, 40° 30′ E
spoken in Kenya
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 1A | Consonant Inventories | Large | Phonology | comment | |
| 2A | Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | Phonology | comment | |
| 3A | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | High | Phonology | comment | |
| 4A | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In both plosives and fricatives | Phonology | comment | |
| 5A | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | Phonology | comment | |
| 6A | Uvular Consonants | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 7A | Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives and implosives | Phonology | comment | |
| 8A | Lateral Consonants | /l/ and lateral obstruent | Phonology | comment | |
| 11A | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 13A | Tone | Simple tone system | Phonology | comment | |
| 18A | Absence of Common Consonants | All present | Phonology | comment | |
| 19A | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | Clicks, pharyngeals, and 'th' | Phonology | comment | |
| 27A | Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | Morphology | comment | |
| 34A | Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | All nouns, always obligatory | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 52A | Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | Nominal Categories |
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| 105A | Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Double-object construction | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 138A | Tea | Words derived from Sinitic cha | Lexicon |
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