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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Moderately large 
/m/	/n/			/ɲ/	/ŋ/
	
/p/	/b/
	
/t/	/d/	/c/	/ɟ/	/k/	/ɡ/	
			
/ts/	/dz/	/tʃ/	/dʒ/	
							
/ɸ/	/f/	/v/	/θ/	/ð/	/s/	/z/	/ʃ/	/ʒ/	/ç/	/x/				/h/
									/j/								
/r/						
/l/	/ʎ/
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14) 
/i/	/y/			/ɨ/		/u/
		/ʏ/				
	/e/	/ø/				/o/
				
	           /ɛ/			
				
		      /a/			/ɒ/
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average 
3,78
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives 
Plosives:

/p/	/b/	/t/	/d/	/c/	/ɟ/	/k/	/ɡ/

Fricatives:

/ts/	/dz/	/tʃ/	/dʒ/
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent 
/l/	/ʎ/
The Velar Nasal WALS No initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS High and mid
Syllable Structure WALS Complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Initial
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Fixed stress 
"bálálájka" /'ba:la:la:jkɒ/

"örötgyöb" /'øɾøtʰɟøb/

virág" /'viɾa:g/
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Long vowel
Rhythm Types WALS Trochaic
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Pharyngeals and 'th'

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Monoexponential case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 6-7 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Dependent-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strongly suffixing
Reduplication WALS Productive full and partial reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS No syncretism
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS No subject person/number marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No independent subject pronouns
The Associative Plural WALS Associative same as additive plural
Definite Articles WALS Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Different stem
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related for non-human reference
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No gender distinctions
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Multiple politeness distinctions
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Interrogative-based
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS Identical
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS No person marking
Number of Cases WALS 10 or more cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Symmetrical
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Mixed
Ordinal Numerals WALS Various
Distributive Numerals WALS Marked by suffix
Numeral Classifiers WALS Obligatory
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers WALS Formally similar, without interrogative
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS Possessive suffixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Possessive Classification WALS No possessive classification
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Highly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by suffix
Action Nominal Constructions WALS Sentential
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' different from 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS Differentiation

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative WALS Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + special negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems WALS Neither type of system
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent
Situational Possibility WALS Affixes on verbs
Epistemic Possibility WALS Verbal constructions
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking WALS Overlap for either possibility or necessity
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality WALS No grammatical evidentials
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS Tense and aspect
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS None

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS No dominant order 
Ember ol sloketett en.
   O        V      S

en sloketett ember ol.
S     V          O

en ember ol sloketett.
S     O         V

"I drank a person." - idiomatic phrase
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS XOV 
Mikrofonörö   ú on   maletett.
    X           O        V

['Mikrofonørø 'u: on 'mɒlɛtɛtʰ]

Microphone+(with) 3rd.Sing.+(nominative particle) spoke.

  He spoke with microphone.
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Mixed
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Final subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS VO and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS OV and AdjN
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS NegV
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS SONegV

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking WALS Neutral
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking WALS Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Indirect-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions WALS Distinct from reflexive
Passive Constructions WALS Present
Antipassive Constructions WALS No antipassive
Applicative Constructions WALS No applicative construction
Periphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Sequential but no purposive
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative particle
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS A/Fin and A/NonReal
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation WALS Predicate negation also present
Polar Questions WALS Mixture of previous two types
Predicative Possession WALS Locational
Predicative Adjectives WALS Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication WALS Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Possible
Comparative Constructions WALS Locational

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects WALS Gap
Relativization on Obliques WALS Gap
'Want' Complement Subjects WALS Subject is left implicit
Purpose Clauses WALS Balanced
'When' Clauses WALS Balanced
Reason Clauses WALS Balanced
Utterance Complement Clauses WALS Balanced

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal 
1-12 are unique numbers, then bigger numbers may not have unique numbers like 11/12 as their choice.

1: hön
2: ket (két)
3: söt
4: nöt
5: döt
6: jöt
7: ülgi
8: üldi
9: ahyb
10: jöl
11: elhv (jölhön for numbers with three digits or more)
12: tölhv (jöldil for numbers with three digits or more)

13: jölsöt
14: jölnöt ...

20: smül
30: solln
40: malln
50: syn
60: jesyn
70: illn
80: jolln
90: alln

100: hönön / on (original word for 100 is 'on'.)
111: onjölhön
141: onmallnhön ...

1000: szen

10^6:	ámien
10^9:	ámied
10^12:	ábien
10^15:	ábied
10^18:	átien
10^21:	átied
10^24:	ákien
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 6
Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS 11
Green and Blue WALS Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow WALS Red vs. yellow
M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns
Tea WALS Words derived from Sinitic cha 
"csáj" for tea

Sign Languages

Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages WALS None
Question Particles in Sign Languages WALS None

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks WALS Affective meanings

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Fauxlang

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