| 1A |
Consonant Inventories |
Moderately 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 |
Average |
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 |
Uvular stops only |
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 |
/l/, no obstruent 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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| 11A |
Front Rounded Vowels |
None |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 12A |
Syllable Structure |
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 |
All present |
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 |
Weakly suffixing |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Plural suffix |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 36A |
The Associative Plural |
Associative same as additive plural |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 46A |
Indefinite Pronouns |
Interrogative-based |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
Case suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 52A |
Comitatives and Instrumentals |
Differentiation |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
examples
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
No possessive affixes |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Mixed type |
Verbal Categories |
|
comment
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| 73A |
The Optative |
Inflectional optative absent |
Verbal Categories |
|
comment
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
SOV |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
SV |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
OV |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Postpositions |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Genitive-Noun |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 87A |
Order of Adjective and Noun |
Adjective-Noun |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Demonstrative-Noun |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 94A |
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause |
Initial subordinator word |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
OV and Postpositions |
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 |
OV and AdjN |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 112A |
Negative Morphemes |
Double negation |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
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| 138A |
Tea |
Words derived from Sinitic cha |
Lexicon |
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comment
examples
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
ObligDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143B |
Obligatory Double Negation |
[Neg-V-Neg] |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
[Neg-V] |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
[V-Neg] |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
ObligDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144L |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages |
ObligDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144N |
Obligatory Double Negation in SOV languages |
SO[Neg-V-Neg] |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144P |
NegSOV Order |
No NegSOV |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144Q |
SNegOV Order |
No SNegOV |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144R |
SONegV Order |
Prefix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144S |
SOVNeg Order |
Suffix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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