Tehuelche
WALS coordinates: 48° S, 68° W
spoken in Argentina
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Alternative Names
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 1A | Consonant Inventories | Moderately large | Phonology | comment | |
| 2A | Vowel Quality Inventories | Small (2-4) | Phonology | comment | |
| 3A | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | High | Phonology | comment | |
| 4A | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | Phonology | comment | |
| 5A | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Missing /g/ | Phonology | comment | |
| 6A | Uvular Consonants | Uvular stops only | Phonology | comment | |
| 7A | Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives only | Phonology | comment | |
| 8A | Lateral Consonants | /l/ and lateral obstruent | Phonology | comment | |
| 9A | The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | Phonology | comment | |
| 11A | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 13A | Tone | No tones | Phonology | comment | |
| 14A | Fixed Stress Locations | Initial | Phonology | comment | |
| 15A | Weight-Sensitive Stress | Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) | Phonology | comment | |
| 16A | Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight | Phonology | comment | |
| 18A | Absence of Common Consonants | All present | Phonology | comment | |
| 19A | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 70A | The Morphological Imperative | Second singular | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 129A | Hand and Arm | Different | Lexicon |
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| 130A | Finger and Hand | Different | Lexicon |
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