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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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High |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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In plosives alone |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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None missing in /p t k b d g/ |
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Uvular Consonants
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Uvular stops and continuants |
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Glottalized Consonants
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Ejectives only |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/ and lateral obstruent |
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The Velar Nasal
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No velar nasal |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Tone
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Simple tone system |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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No nasals |
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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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Double 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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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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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural prefix |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite word distinct from 'one' |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Four-way contrast |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person only, but also non-singular |
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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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Case suffixes |
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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 suffixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
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Exists |
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Possessive Classification
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Two classes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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Indirect only |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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Verbal affix or clitic |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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VSO |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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VS |
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Order of Object and Verb
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VO |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Noun-Genitive |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Adjective-Noun |
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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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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Initial subordinator word |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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VO and AdjN |
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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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P precedes A |
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Passive Constructions
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Present |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative auxiliary verb |
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
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Asymmetric |
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Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation
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A/Fin |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative verb morphology |
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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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Identical |
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Numeral Bases
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Decimal |
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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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