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Features for Lajik

Consonant Inventories ^WALS	Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories ^WALS	Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio ^WALS	Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives ^WALS	In fricatives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems ^WALS	Both missing
Uvular Consonants ^WALS	Uvular continuants only
Glottalized Consonants ^WALS	No glottalized consonants
The Velar Nasal ^WALS	No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization ^WALS	Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels ^WALS	High only
Syllable Structure ^WALS	Moderately complex
Tone ^WALS	No tones
Fixed Stress Locations ^WALS	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress ^WALS	Left-oriented: One of the first three
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems ^WALS	Lexical stress
Absence of Common Consonants ^WALS	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants ^WALS	'Th' sounds

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives ^WALS	Ablaut/concatenative
Locus of Marking in the Clause ^WALS	Head marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases ^WALS	Head marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology ^WALS	Head-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology ^WALS	Weakly suffixing
Reduplication ^WALS	No productive reduplication
Case Syncretism ^WALS	No syncretism
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking ^WALS	Not syncretic

Number of Genders ^WALS	Two
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems ^WALS	Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment ^WALS	Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality ^WALS	Mixed morphological plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality ^WALS	All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
The Associative Plural ^WALS	Unique periphrastic associative plural
Definite Articles ^WALS	Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles ^WALS	No indefinite, but definite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns ^WALS	Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection ^WALS	Inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives ^WALS	Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives ^WALS	Different inflection
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives ^WALS	Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	3rd person only, but also non-singular
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns ^WALS	No politeness distinction
Indefinite Pronouns ^WALS	Special
Person Marking on Adpositions ^WALS	No adpositions
Number of Cases ^WALS	6-7 cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking ^WALS	Symmetrical
Position of Case Affixes ^WALS	Mixed morphological case
Comitatives and Instrumentals ^WALS	Differentiation
Ordinal Numerals ^WALS	Various
Distributive Numerals ^WALS	No distributive numerals
Numeral Classifiers ^WALS	Absent

Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses ^WALS	Highly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns ^WALS	Not without noun

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect ^WALS	No grammatical marking
The Past Tense ^WALS	Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense ^WALS	Inflectional future exists
The Perfect ^WALS	No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes ^WALS	No tense-aspect inflection
The Morphological Imperative ^WALS	Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive ^WALS	Normal imperative + normal negative
Situational Possibility ^WALS	Other kinds of markers

Order of Subject, Object and Verb ^WALS	VSO
Order of Subject and Verb ^WALS	VS
Order of Object and Verb ^WALS	VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb ^WALS	VOX
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
Position of Polar Question Particles ^WALS	In either of two positions
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions ^WALS	Not initial interrogative phrase

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	Secondary-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions ^WALS	Distinct from reflexive
Passive Constructions ^WALS	Present
Antipassive Constructions ^WALS	No antipassive
Negative Morphemes ^WALS	Negative auxiliary verb
Polar Questions ^WALS	Question particle
Predicative Possession ^WALS	Genitive
Comparative Constructions ^WALS	Exceed

Finger and Hand ^WALS	Identical
Numeral Bases ^WALS	Decimal
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories ^WALS	3
Number of Basic Colour Categories ^WALS	3-4
Green and Blue ^WALS	Green/blue
Red and Yellow ^WALS	Red/yellow
M-T Pronouns ^WALS	No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns ^WALS	No N-M pronouns
Tea ^WALS	Others

Writing Systems ^WALS	Alphasyllabic
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks ^WALS	Other or none

Conlang type	Artlang

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