| 1A |
Consonant Inventories |
Large |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 2A |
Vowel Quality Inventories |
Large (7-14) |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 3A |
Consonant-Vowel Ratio |
Moderately high |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 4A |
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives |
No voicing constrast |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 5A |
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems |
Other |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 6A |
Uvular Consonants |
None |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 7A |
Glottalized Consonants |
No glottalized consonants |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 8A |
Lateral Consonants |
/l/, no obstruent laterals |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 11A |
Front Rounded Vowels |
None |
Phonology |
|
comment
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| 12A |
Syllable Structure |
Simple |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 13A |
Tone |
No tones |
Phonology |
|
comment
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| 14A |
Fixed Stress Locations |
Initial |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 15A |
Weight-Sensitive Stress |
Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 16A |
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems |
No weight |
Phonology |
|
comment
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| 17A |
Rhythm Types |
Trochaic |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 18A |
Absence of Common Consonants |
No fricatives |
Phonology |
|
comment
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| 19A |
Presence of Uncommon Consonants |
Labial-velars |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 30A |
Number of Genders |
None |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 31A |
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems |
No gender |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 32A |
Systems of Gender Assignment |
No gender |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Plural word |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 35A |
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns |
Person-number stem |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 44A |
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns |
No gender distinctions |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 48A |
Person Marking on Adpositions |
Pronouns and nouns |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 52A |
Comitatives and Instrumentals |
Differentiation |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
examples
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
Possessive prefixes |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Tense-aspect prefixes |
Verbal Categories |
|
comment
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
SOV |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
SV |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
OV |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Postpositions |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Genitive-Noun |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 87A |
Order of Adjective and Noun |
Noun-Adjective |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Noun-Demonstrative |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 89A |
Order of Numeral and Noun |
Noun-Numeral |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
OV and Postpositions |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 97A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun |
OV and NAdj |
Word Order |
|
comment
|
| 100A |
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking |
Split |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
|
| 101A |
Expression of Pronominal Subjects |
Subject affixes on verb |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
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| 102A |
Verbal Person Marking |
Both the A and P arguments |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
|
| 103A |
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking |
Zero in some 3sg forms |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
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| 104A |
Order of Person Markers on the Verb |
P precedes A |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
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| 107A |
Passive Constructions |
Absent |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
|
| 111A |
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions |
Morphological but no compound |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
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