Konkani
WALS coordinates: 15° 15′ N, 74° E
spoken in India
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Large (7-14) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately low | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | All nouns, always obligatory | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Morphological Imperative | Second person number-neutral | |
| The Prohibitive | Special imperative + special negative | |
| Imperative-Hortative Systems | Neither type of system | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Tea | Words derived from Sinitic cha | |
