| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Average |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Large (7-14) |
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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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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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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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None |
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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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| Nominal Categories |
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The Associative Plural
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Associative same as additive plural |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Related for all demonstratives |
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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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Multiple politeness distinctions |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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Number of Cases
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5 cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Symmetrical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Ordinal Numerals
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First, two-th, three-th |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Absent |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Noun Phrase Conjunction
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'And' different from 'with' |
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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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Imperative-Hortative Systems
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Neither type of system |
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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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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Postpositions |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Adjective-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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No dominant order |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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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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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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OV and NRel |
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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 AdjN |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
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Morphological but no compound |
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Predicative Possession
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Locational |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Nonverbal encoding |
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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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Hand and Arm
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Identical |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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Tea
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Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te |
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