Sindhi
WALS coordinates: 26° N, 69° E
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Large | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Large (7-14) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately high | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In both plosives and fricatives | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | Implosives only | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Fixed Stress Locations | No fixed stress | |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | Combined: Right-edge and unbounded | |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Distributive Numerals | Marked by reduplication | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Optative | Inflectional optative absent | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Tea | Words derived from Sinitic cha | |
