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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately large |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Average (5-6) |
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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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In fricatives alone |
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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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Uvular stops and continuants |
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Glottalized Consonants
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Ejectives only |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/ and lateral obstruent |
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The Velar Nasal
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Initial velar nasal |
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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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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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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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None |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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No gender |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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No gender |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number stem + nominal plural affix |
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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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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Ordinal Numerals
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First, second, three-th |
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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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SOV |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
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OV |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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No dominant order |
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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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No dominant order |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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No dominant order |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Initial subordinator word |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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Other |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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Reciprocal Constructions
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Distinct from reflexive |
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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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M-T Pronouns
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M-T pronouns, paradigmatic |
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N-M Pronouns
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No N-M pronouns |
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