| Phonology |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Average (5-6) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Moderately low |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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In plosives alone |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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None missing in /p t k b d g/ |
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Uvular Consonants
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None |
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Glottalized Consonants
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No glottalized consonants |
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Lateral Consonants
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No laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Simple |
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Tone
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No tones |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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Initial |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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No weight |
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Rhythm Types
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Trochaic |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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No fricatives |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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None |
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| Morphology |
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
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No marking |
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Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
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No marking |
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Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
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Inconsistent or other |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person only, but also non-singular |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No person marking |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Obligatory |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + normal negative |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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Indirect only |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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Verbal affix or clitic |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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SOV |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
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OV |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Postpositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Genitive-Noun |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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No dominant order |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Mixed |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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OV and Postpositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Other |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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Other |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Only the A argument |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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Zero in some 3sg forms |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative affix |
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
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Both |
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Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation
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A/Fin |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative verb morphology |
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| Lexicon |
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Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories
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4 |
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Number of Basic Colour Categories
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3-4 |
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Green and Blue
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Green/blue |
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Red and Yellow
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None |
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M-T Pronouns
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No M-T pronouns |
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N-M Pronouns
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No N-M pronouns |
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