| 1A |
Consonant Inventories |
Small |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 2A |
Vowel Quality Inventories |
Average (5-6) |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 3A |
Consonant-Vowel Ratio |
Low |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 4A |
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives |
No voicing constrast |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 5A |
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems |
Other |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 6A |
Uvular Consonants |
None |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 7A |
Glottalized Consonants |
No glottalized consonants |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 8A |
Lateral Consonants |
No laterals |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 9A |
The Velar Nasal |
Initial velar nasal |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 10A |
Vowel Nasalization |
Contrast absent |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 11A |
Front Rounded Vowels |
None |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 12A |
Syllable Structure |
Moderately complex |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 13A |
Tone |
No tones |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 18A |
Absence of Common Consonants |
No fricatives |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 19A |
Presence of Uncommon Consonants |
None |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Equal prefixing and suffixing |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 27A |
Reduplication |
Productive full and partial reduplication |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 28A |
Case Syncretism |
No case marking |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 29A |
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking |
No subject person/number marking |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Mixed morphological plural |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 35A |
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns |
Person-number stem |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 36A |
The Associative Plural |
Unique periphrastic associative plural |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 39A |
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns |
No inclusive/exclusive |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 40A |
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection |
No person marking |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 43A |
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives |
Unrelated |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 44A |
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns |
No gender distinctions |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 48A |
Person Marking on Adpositions |
Pronouns and nouns |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 49A |
Number of Cases |
No morphological case-marking |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 50A |
Asymmetrical Case-Marking |
No case-marking |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 54A |
Distributive Numerals |
Marked by prefix |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 55A |
Numeral Classifiers |
Obligatory |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
Possessive suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 64A |
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction |
Differentiation |
Nominal Syntax |
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comment
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Tense-aspect prefixes |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 70A |
The Morphological Imperative |
Second singular and second plural |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 71A |
The Prohibitive |
Normal imperative + special negative |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 72A |
Imperative-Hortative Systems |
Neither type of system |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 73A |
The Optative |
Inflectional optative absent |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 74A |
Situational Possibility |
Verbal constructions |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 75A |
Epistemic Possibility |
Other |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 77A |
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality |
No grammatical evidentials |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 78A |
Coding of Evidentiality |
No grammatical evidentials |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
VOS |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
VS |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
VO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 84A |
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb |
VOX |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Prepositions |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Noun-Genitive |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 87A |
Order of Adjective and Noun |
Noun-Adjective |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Noun-Demonstrative |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 89A |
Order of Numeral and Noun |
Numeral-Noun |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 90A |
Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
Noun-Relative clause |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 90C |
Postnominal relative clauses |
Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 91A |
Order of Degree Word and Adjective |
Adjective-Degree word |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 93A |
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions |
Not initial interrogative phrase |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 94A |
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause |
Initial subordinator word |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
VO and Prepositions |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 96A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
VO and NRel |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 97A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun |
VO and NAdj |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 98A |
Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases |
Neutral |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
examples
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| 100A |
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking |
Accusative |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 101A |
Expression of Pronominal Subjects |
Subject pronouns in different position |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 102A |
Verbal Person Marking |
Both the A and P arguments |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 103A |
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking |
No zero realization |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 104A |
Order of Person Markers on the Verb |
A precedes P |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 105A |
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' |
Double-object construction |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 107A |
Passive Constructions |
Present |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 110A |
Periphrastic Causative Constructions |
Purposive but no sequential |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 111A |
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions |
Morphological but no compound |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 112A |
Negative Morphemes |
Negative word, unclear if verb or particle |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 124A |
'Want' Complement Subjects |
Subject is left implicit |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 126A |
'When' Clauses |
Balanced |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 127A |
Reason Clauses |
Balanced |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 131A |
Numeral Bases |
Decimal |
Lexicon |
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comment
examples
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
NegV |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
NegV |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
None |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
NegVOS |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144B |
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb |
Immed preverbal |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144T |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages |
NegVOS |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144V |
Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative |
Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144W |
Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object |
None |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144X |
Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative |
No clause-final neg |
Word Order |
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comment
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