| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately large |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Small (2-4) |
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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 only |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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Vowel Nasalization
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Contrast absent |
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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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No tones |
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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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Case Syncretism
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No case marking |
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Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking
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No subject person/number marking |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Number-indifferent pronouns |
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Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns
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'We' the same as 'I' |
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Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection
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No person marking |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No person marking |
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Number of Cases
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2 cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Symmetrical |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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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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Epistemic Possibility
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Other |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
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None |
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Verbal Number and Suppletion
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None |
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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 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 Numeral and Noun
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No dominant order |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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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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OV and Postpositions |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Neutral |
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Verbal Person Marking
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No person marking |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No person marking |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
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Symmetric |
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Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation
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Non-assignable |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative verb morphology |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Different |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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