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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 both plosives and fricatives |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Missing /p/ |
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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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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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Syllable Structure
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Complex |
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Tone
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No tones |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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Ultimate |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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No weight |
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Rhythm Types
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No rhythmic stress |
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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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Pharyngeals |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Weakly prefixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Mixed morphological plural |
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Definite Articles
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No definite, but indefinite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite affix |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Three-way contrast |
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Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
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Different stem |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case prefixes |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive suffixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect prefixes |
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The Morphological Imperative
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Second singular and second plural |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + normal negative |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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No dominant order |
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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 Demonstrative and Noun
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Demonstrative suffix |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Mixed |
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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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Negative Morphemes
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Variation between negative word and affix |
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Polar Questions
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Mixture of previous two types |
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Predicative Possession
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Locational |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Verbal 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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