Tsou

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

spoken in Taiwan

Alternative Names

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