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Consonant Inventories
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Small |
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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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None |
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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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Front Rounded Vowels
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Mid only |
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Syllable Structure
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Complex |
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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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Prominence |
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Rhythm Types
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Trochaic |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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No fricatives |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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None |
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| Morphology |
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
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Other |
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Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
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Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
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Inconsistent or other |
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Reduplication
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Productive full and partial reduplication |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person singular only |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No adpositions |
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Number of Cases
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6-7 cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Absent |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
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Absent |
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Possessive Classification
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Two classes |
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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 and Verb
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SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
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OV |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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No dominant order |
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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 Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Mixed |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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OV and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Both the A and P arguments |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No zero realization |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A precedes P |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Mixed |
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Nominal and Locational Predication
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Different |
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
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Possible |
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| Lexicon |
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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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No N-M pronouns |
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