| 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 |
In both plosives and fricatives |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 5A |
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems |
None missing in /p t k b d g/ |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 6A |
Uvular Consonants |
None |
Phonology |
|
comment
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| 7A |
Glottalized Consonants |
Implosives only |
Phonology |
|
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 |
Moderately complex |
Phonology |
|
comment
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| 13A |
Tone |
Complex tone system |
Phonology |
|
comment
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| 18A |
Absence of Common Consonants |
All present |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 19A |
Presence of Uncommon Consonants |
Labial-velars |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Equal prefixing and suffixing |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Plural clitic |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
Possessive suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
|
comment
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Mixed type |
Verbal Categories |
|
comment
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
SVO |
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 |
VO |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 84A |
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb |
VOX |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Prepositions |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Noun-Genitive |
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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| 90A |
Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
Noun-Relative clause |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 90C |
Postnominal relative clauses |
Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 92A |
Position of Polar Question Particles |
Final |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
VO and Prepositions |
Word Order |
|
comment
|
| 96A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
VO and NRel |
Word Order |
|
comment
|
| 97A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun |
VO and NAdj |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 116A |
Polar Questions |
Question particle |
Simple Clauses |
|
comment
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
VNeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
None |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
VNeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
|
comment
|
| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
SVNegO |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144B |
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb |
Immed postverbal |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144D |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages |
SVNegO |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144H |
NegSVO Order |
No NegSVO |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144I |
SNegVO Order |
No SNegVO |
Word Order |
|
comment
|
| 144J |
SVNegO Order |
Word&NoDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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| 144K |
SVONeg Order |
No SVONeg |
Word Order |
|
comment
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