| Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives / The Past Tense | Number of languages | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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Exclusively concatenative / Present, no remoteness distinctions
|
39 | |
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Exclusively concatenative / Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions | 14 | |
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Exclusively concatenative / Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions | 1 | |
|
Exclusively concatenative / No past tense | 29 | |
|
Exclusively isolating / Present, no remoteness distinctions | 2 | |
|
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Exclusively isolating / Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions | 2 | |
|
Exclusively isolating / Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
|
Exclusively isolating / No past tense | 7 | |
|
Exclusively tonal / Present, no remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
Exclusively tonal / Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
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Exclusively tonal / Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
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Exclusively tonal / No past tense | 1 | |
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Tonal/isolating / Present, no remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
Tonal/isolating / Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
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Tonal/isolating / Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
Tonal/isolating / No past tense | 1 | |
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Tonal/concatenative / Present, no remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
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Tonal/concatenative / Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
Tonal/concatenative / Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
Tonal/concatenative / No past tense
|
0 | ||
|
Ablaut/concatenative / Present, no remoteness distinctions | 3 | |
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Ablaut/concatenative / Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
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Ablaut/concatenative / Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
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Ablaut/concatenative / No past tense | 1 | |
|
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Isolating/concatenative / Present, no remoteness distinctions | 3 | |
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Isolating/concatenative / Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions | 1 | |
|
Isolating/concatenative / Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
|
0 | ||
|
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Isolating/concatenative / No past tense | 7 |