| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately small |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Large (7-14) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Average |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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In fricatives alone |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Other |
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Uvular Consonants
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None |
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Glottalized Consonants
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Implosives only |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Moderately complex |
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Tone
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Complex tone system |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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All present |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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'Th' sounds |
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| Morphology |
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Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb
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2-3 categories per word |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Little affixation |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural word |
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Definite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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No tense-aspect inflection |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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SVO |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
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VO |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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VOX |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Genitive-Noun |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Noun-Adjective |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Noun-Demonstrative |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Noun-Numeral |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Adjective-Degree word |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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Final |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Mixed |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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VO and Prepositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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VO and NRel |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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VO and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative word, unclear if verb or particle |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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| Lexicon |
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Tea
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Others |
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