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Phonology
- Consonant Inventories (1225 languages)
- Vowel Quality Inventories (1238 languages)
- Consonant-Vowel Ratio (1152 languages)
- Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives (1209 languages)
- Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems (1171 languages)
- Uvular Consonants (1198 languages)
- Glottalized Consonants (1173 languages)
- Lateral Consonants (1186 languages)
- The Velar Nasal (1193 languages)
- Vowel Nasalization (1181 languages)
- Front Rounded Vowels (1168 languages)
- Syllable Structure (1199 languages)
- Tone (1220 languages)
- Fixed Stress Locations (1019 languages)
- Weight-Sensitive Stress (878 languages)
- Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems (841 languages)
- Rhythm Types (741 languages)
- Absence of Common Consonants (1160 languages)
- Presence of Uncommon Consonants (1159 languages)
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Morphology
- Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives (882 languages)
- Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives (829 languages)
- Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb (802 languages)
- Locus of Marking in the Clause (820 languages)
- Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases (805 languages)
- Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology (755 languages)
- Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology (876 languages)
- Reduplication (862 languages)
- Case Syncretism (837 languages)
- Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking (834 languages)
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Nominal Categories
- Number of Genders (1111 languages)
- Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems (1068 languages)
- Systems of Gender Assignment (1023 languages)
- Coding of Nominal Plurality (1037 languages)
- Occurrence of Nominal Plurality (944 languages)
- Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns (874 languages)
- The Associative Plural (655 languages)
- Definite Articles (1012 languages)
- Indefinite Articles (990 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns (914 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection (899 languages)
- Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives (818 languages)
- Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives (664 languages)
- Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives (736 languages)
- Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns (866 languages)
- Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns (842 languages)
- Indefinite Pronouns (596 languages)
- Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns (577 languages)
- Person Marking on Adpositions (743 languages)
- Number of Cases (933 languages)
- Asymmetrical Case-Marking (746 languages)
- Position of Case Affixes (864 languages)
- Comitatives and Instrumentals (695 languages)
- Ordinal Numerals (731 languages)
- Distributive Numerals (516 languages)
- Numeral Classifiers (713 languages)
- Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers (462 languages)
- Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes (761 languages)
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Nominal Syntax
- Obligatory Possessive Inflection (781 languages)
- Possessive Classification (734 languages)
- Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses (648 languages)
- Adjectives without Nouns (644 languages)
- Action Nominal Constructions (459 languages)
- Noun Phrase Conjunction (654 languages)
- Nominal and Verbal Conjunction (640 languages)
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Verbal Categories
- Perfective/Imperfective Aspect (840 languages)
- The Past Tense (898 languages)
- The Future Tense (894 languages)
- The Perfect (793 languages)
- Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes (831 languages)
- The Morphological Imperative (716 languages)
- The Prohibitive (667 languages)
- Imperative-Hortative Systems (487 languages)
- The Optative (675 languages)
- Situational Possibility (538 languages)
- Epistemic Possibility (522 languages)
- Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking (450 languages)
- Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality (613 languages)
- Coding of Evidentiality (652 languages)
- Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect (608 languages)
- Verbal Number and Suppletion (609 languages)
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Word Order
- Order of Subject, Object and Verb (1001 languages)
- Order of Subject and Verb (961 languages)
- Order of Object and Verb (954 languages)
- Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb (752 languages)
- Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (836 languages)
- Order of Genitive and Noun (893 languages)
- Order of Adjective and Noun (927 languages)
- Order of Demonstrative and Noun (822 languages)
- Order of Numeral and Noun (845 languages)
- Order of Relative Clause and Noun (750 languages)
- Order of Degree Word and Adjective (593 languages)
- Position of Polar Question Particles (720 languages)
- Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions (666 languages)
- Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause (567 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (674 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun (654 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun (694 languages)
- Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb (625 languages)
- Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb (577 languages)
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Simple Clauses
- Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases (744 languages)
- Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns (704 languages)
- Alignment of Verbal Person Marking (678 languages)
- Expression of Pronominal Subjects (680 languages)
- Verbal Person Marking (753 languages)
- Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking (675 languages)
- Order of Person Markers on the Verb (665 languages)
- Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' (603 languages)
- Reciprocal Constructions (511 languages)
- Passive Constructions (690 languages)
- Antipassive Constructions (595 languages)
- Applicative Constructions (502 languages)
- Periphrastic Causative Constructions (300 languages)
- Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions (440 languages)
- Negative Morphemes (704 languages)
- Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation (519 languages)
- Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation (407 languages)
- Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation (365 languages)
- Polar Questions (674 languages)
- Predicative Possession (495 languages)
- Predicative Adjectives (554 languages)
- Nominal and Locational Predication (517 languages)
- Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals (596 languages)
- Comparative Constructions (438 languages)
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Complex Sentences
- Relativization on Subjects (532 languages)
- Relativization on Obliques (488 languages)
- 'Want' Complement Subjects (452 languages)
- Purpose Clauses (399 languages)
- 'When' Clauses (411 languages)
- Reason Clauses (402 languages)
- Utterance Complement Clauses (371 languages)
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Lexicon
- Hand and Arm (742 languages)
- Finger and Hand (722 languages)
- Numeral Bases (813 languages)
- Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories (383 languages)
- Number of Basic Colour Categories (364 languages)
- Green and Blue (583 languages)
- Red and Yellow (583 languages)
- M-T Pronouns (625 languages)
- N-M Pronouns (619 languages)
- Tea (539 languages)
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Sign Languages
- Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages (79 languages)
- Question Particles in Sign Languages (83 languages)
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Other
- Writing Systems (714 languages)
- Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks (415 languages)
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Conlang-specific
- Conlang type (891 languages)
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