Tol

WALS coordinates: 14° 40′ N, 87° W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Average
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	No tones
Fixed Stress Locations	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	Coda consonant
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders	None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number stem
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative
Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero in some 3sg forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	P precedes A
Passive Constructions	Absent
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	Non-assignable
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories	5
Number of Basic Colour Categories	4.5-5.5
Green and Blue	Green/blue
Red and Yellow	Red vs. yellow