Sora
WALS coordinates: 20° N, 84° 20′ E
spoken in India
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | |
| Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Identity | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions | Morphological but no compound | |
| Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | |
| Predicative Adjectives | Mixed | |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Different | |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Possible | |
