Tsou

WALS coordinates: 23° 30′ N, 120° 45′ E

spoken in Taiwan

Alternative Names

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Moderately small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In fricatives alone	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	Implosives only	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	No laterals	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	No tones	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
27A	Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication	Morphology	comment
44A	Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions	Nominal Categories	comment
48A	Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking	Nominal Categories	comment
54A	Distributive Numerals	Marked by prefix	Nominal Categories	comment
55A	Numeral Classifiers	Absent	Nominal Categories	comment
100A	Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Active	Simple Clauses	comment
102A	Verbal Person Marking	Only the A argument	Simple Clauses	comment
103A	Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No zero realization	Simple Clauses	comment
104A	Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb	Simple Clauses	comment
107A	Passive Constructions	Absent	Simple Clauses	comment