Features for Proto-Qephex

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
b k q dʰ d tʰ t g l m n pʰ ɾ s sʲ hʲ v x zʲ
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants WALS Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural stem change
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always optional
The Associative Plural WALS Unique affixal associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite, but indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word same as 'one'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS Inclusive/exclusive
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 1st or 2nd person but not 3rd
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS No politeness distinction
Number of Cases WALS 10 or more cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Symmetrical
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case suffixes
Ordinal Numerals WALS One, two, three
Distributive Numerals WALS No distributive numerals

Nominal Syntax

Adjectives without Nouns WALS Without marking

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
The Perfect WALS Other perfect

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS VOS
Order of Subject and Verb WALS VS
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS [V-Neg]
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS Other 
[VNeg]OS 
The Negative is a suffix or infix (not a true infix, but a stacked suffix which precedes tense and mood markings), depending on the tense and mood aspects of the verb. For all intents and purposes this is a V-NEG OS system.

Complex Sentences

'Want' Complement Subjects WALS Both construction types exist

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Extended body-part system
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 Others

Other

Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks WALS Affective meanings

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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