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Consonant Inventories
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Large |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Large (7-14) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Moderately high |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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No voicing constrast |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Other |
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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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/l/, no obstruent 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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Labial-velars |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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None |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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No gender |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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No gender |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural word |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number stem |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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Pronouns and nouns |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive prefixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect prefixes |
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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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Noun-Adjective |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Noun-Demonstrative |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Noun-Numeral |
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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 Adjective and Noun
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OV and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Split |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Both the A and P arguments |
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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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P precedes A |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
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Morphological but no compound |
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