Klao
WALS coordinates: 4° 45′ N, 8° 45′ W
spoken in Liberia
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Small | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Large (7-14) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Low | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | No laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Simple | |
| Tone | Complex tone system | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | No nasals | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | Labial-velars | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | |
| Indefinite Articles | No indefinite, but definite article | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SVO | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | No dominant order | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | Other | |
