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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately large |
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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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Moderately high |
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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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Ejectives, implosives, and glottalized resonants |
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Lateral Consonants
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Laterals, but no /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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Complex |
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Tone
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Complex tone system |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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Ultimate |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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No weight |
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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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Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
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Exclusively concatenative |
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Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
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No case |
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Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb
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8-9 categories per word |
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
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Head marking |
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Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
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Head marking |
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Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
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Head-marking |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Definite Articles
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Definite affix |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite affix |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person singular only |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No adpositions |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive prefixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Action Nominal Constructions
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Sentential |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Identity |
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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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SOV |
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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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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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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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Zero in all 3sg forms |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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P precedes A |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Secondary-object construction |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative affix |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative verb morphology |
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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Desiderative verbal affix |
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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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