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Phonology

Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops only
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present

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 optional
Definite Articles WALS Definite affix
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word same as 'one'
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Unrelated
Number of Cases WALS 8-9 cases
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case suffixes
Ordinal Numerals WALS One-th, two-th, three-th
Numeral Classifiers WALS Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS Possessive prefixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by suffix

Verbal Categories

The Past Tense WALS Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
The Perfect WALS Other perfect
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + special negative
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative present

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SVO
Order of Subject and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS XVO
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS Degree word-Adjective
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS VO and NAdj
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS VNeg
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS SVNegO

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Passive Constructions WALS Present
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative affix
Predicative Possession WALS Genitive

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal
Green and Blue WALS Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow WALS Red vs. yellow
Tea WALS Words derived from Sinitic cha

Sign Languages

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

Other

Writing Systems WALS Consonantal

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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