Kurukh
WALS coordinates: 22° 50′ N, 85° 30′ E
spoken in India
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | |
| Uvular Consonants | Uvular continuants only | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | |
| Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | |
| Distributive Numerals | Marked by reduplication | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Different | |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Impossible | |
