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