| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Average |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Average (5-6) |
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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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No voicing constrast |
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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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Uvular stops only |
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Glottalized Consonants
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No glottalized consonants |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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The Velar Nasal
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Initial velar nasal |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Tone
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No tones |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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No fixed stress |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Left-edge: First or second |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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Long vowel |
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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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None |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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Reduplication
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Productive full and partial reduplication |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Absent |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive prefixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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No dominant order |
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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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No dominant order |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Postpositions |
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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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Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
|
Noun-Relative clause |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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Second position |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Initial interrogative phrase |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Other |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Other |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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Other |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Reciprocal Constructions
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Identical to reflexive |
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Negative Morphemes
|
Negative particle |
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Polar Questions
|
Question particle |
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Predicative Possession
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Topic |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Identical |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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M-T Pronouns
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No M-T pronouns |
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N-M Pronouns
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N-M pronouns, paradigmatic |
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