1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Genus: Kru

Klao

WALS coordinates: 4° 45′ N, 8° 45′ W

spoken in Liberia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Klau
Routledge:
Other:
  • Kru
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants No laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Simple Phonology
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13A Tone Complex tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants No nasals Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants Labial-velars Phonology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SNegOV Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Preverbal, not beginning or immed Word Order
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144C Languages with different word order in negative clauses SVO, but SNegOV Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SVO but SNegOV Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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