| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Average |
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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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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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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Complex |
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Tone
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No tones |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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No fricatives |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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None |
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| Morphology |
|---|
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
|
Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
|
Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
|
Dependent-marking |
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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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Coding of Nominal Plurality
|
Plural word |
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Indefinite Pronouns
|
Interrogative-based |
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Position of Case Affixes
|
Case suffixes |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
|---|
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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
|
Absent |
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Possessive Classification
|
No possessive classification |
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| Verbal Categories |
|---|
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
|
Tense-aspect suffixes |
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The Morphological Imperative
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No second-person imperatives |
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The Prohibitive
|
Normal imperative + normal negative |
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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
|
SOV |
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Order of Subject and Verb
|
SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
|
OV |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
|
OVX |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
|
No dominant order |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
|
Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
|
No dominant order |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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Initial |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
|
Initial subordinator word |
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| Simple Clauses |
|---|
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
|
Optional pronouns in subject position |
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Negative Morphemes
|
Negative particle |
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Polar Questions
|
Mixture of previous two types |
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| Complex Sentences |
|---|
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Purpose Clauses
|
Deranked |
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'When' Clauses
|
Balanced |
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Reason Clauses
|
Balanced/deranked |
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Utterance Complement Clauses
|
Balanced |
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| Lexicon |
|---|
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Hand and Arm
|
Different |
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Finger and Hand
|
Different |
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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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No N-M pronouns |
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