Tulu

WALS coordinates: 12° 45′ N, 75° 19′ 48.00″ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Average
Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Complex
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix