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Phonology
- Consonant Inventories (1114 languages)
- Vowel Quality Inventories (1127 languages)
- Consonant-Vowel Ratio (1048 languages)
- Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives (1102 languages)
- Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems (1067 languages)
- Uvular Consonants (1094 languages)
- Glottalized Consonants (1068 languages)
- Lateral Consonants (1082 languages)
- The Velar Nasal (1088 languages)
- Vowel Nasalization (1076 languages)
- Front Rounded Vowels (1064 languages)
- Syllable Structure (1094 languages)
- Tone (1111 languages)
- Fixed Stress Locations (924 languages)
- Weight-Sensitive Stress (789 languages)
- Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems (758 languages)
- Rhythm Types (662 languages)
- Absence of Common Consonants (1057 languages)
- Presence of Uncommon Consonants (1056 languages)
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Morphology
- Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives (805 languages)
- Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives (752 languages)
- Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb (724 languages)
- Locus of Marking in the Clause (741 languages)
- Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases (727 languages)
- Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology (677 languages)
- Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology (789 languages)
- Reduplication (767 languages)
- Case Syncretism (751 languages)
- Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking (747 languages)
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Nominal Categories
- Number of Genders (1009 languages)
- Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems (969 languages)
- Systems of Gender Assignment (924 languages)
- Coding of Nominal Plurality (942 languages)
- Occurrence of Nominal Plurality (852 languages)
- Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns (789 languages)
- The Associative Plural (580 languages)
- Definite Articles (915 languages)
- Indefinite Articles (892 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns (819 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection (808 languages)
- Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives (732 languages)
- Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives (592 languages)
- Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives (659 languages)
- Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns (781 languages)
- Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns (756 languages)
- Indefinite Pronouns (520 languages)
- Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns (509 languages)
- Person Marking on Adpositions (665 languages)
- Number of Cases (842 languages)
- Asymmetrical Case-Marking (667 languages)
- Position of Case Affixes (781 languages)
- Comitatives and Instrumentals (620 languages)
- Ordinal Numerals (643 languages)
- Distributive Numerals (454 languages)
- Numeral Classifiers (628 languages)
- Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers (401 languages)
- Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes (684 languages)
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Nominal Syntax
- Obligatory Possessive Inflection (699 languages)
- Possessive Classification (652 languages)
- Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses (577 languages)
- Adjectives without Nouns (563 languages)
- Action Nominal Constructions (400 languages)
- Noun Phrase Conjunction (586 languages)
- Nominal and Verbal Conjunction (575 languages)
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Verbal Categories
- Perfective/Imperfective Aspect (758 languages)
- The Past Tense (810 languages)
- The Future Tense (807 languages)
- The Perfect (715 languages)
- Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes (752 languages)
- The Morphological Imperative (646 languages)
- The Prohibitive (594 languages)
- Imperative-Hortative Systems (432 languages)
- The Optative (610 languages)
- Situational Possibility (478 languages)
- Epistemic Possibility (466 languages)
- Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking (400 languages)
- Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality (549 languages)
- Coding of Evidentiality (581 languages)
- Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect (547 languages)
- Verbal Number and Suppletion (541 languages)
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Word Order
- Order of Subject, Object and Verb (910 languages)
- Order of Subject and Verb (869 languages)
- Order of Object and Verb (862 languages)
- Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb (665 languages)
- Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (750 languages)
- Order of Genitive and Noun (802 languages)
- Order of Adjective and Noun (838 languages)
- Order of Demonstrative and Noun (740 languages)
- Order of Numeral and Noun (753 languages)
- Order of Relative Clause and Noun (672 languages)
- Order of Degree Word and Adjective (519 languages)
- Position of Polar Question Particles (640 languages)
- Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions (590 languages)
- Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause (503 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (603 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun (583 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun (624 languages)
- Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb (549 languages)
- Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb (504 languages)
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Simple Clauses
- Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases (675 languages)
- Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns (633 languages)
- Alignment of Verbal Person Marking (614 languages)
- Expression of Pronominal Subjects (616 languages)
- Verbal Person Marking (685 languages)
- Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking (613 languages)
- Order of Person Markers on the Verb (601 languages)
- Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' (538 languages)
- Reciprocal Constructions (452 languages)
- Passive Constructions (626 languages)
- Antipassive Constructions (535 languages)
- Applicative Constructions (448 languages)
- Periphrastic Causative Constructions (264 languages)
- Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions (396 languages)
- Negative Morphemes (630 languages)
- Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation (457 languages)
- Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation (361 languages)
- Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation (315 languages)
- Polar Questions (601 languages)
- Predicative Possession (434 languages)
- Predicative Adjectives (494 languages)
- Nominal and Locational Predication (456 languages)
- Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals (530 languages)
- Comparative Constructions (382 languages)
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Complex Sentences
- Relativization on Subjects (472 languages)
- Relativization on Obliques (429 languages)
- 'Want' Complement Subjects (398 languages)
- Purpose Clauses (348 languages)
- 'When' Clauses (361 languages)
- Reason Clauses (351 languages)
- Utterance Complement Clauses (322 languages)
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Lexicon
- Hand and Arm (656 languages)
- Finger and Hand (638 languages)
- Numeral Bases (719 languages)
- Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories (313 languages)
- Number of Basic Colour Categories (297 languages)
- Green and Blue (502 languages)
- Red and Yellow (503 languages)
- M-T Pronouns (551 languages)
- N-M Pronouns (545 languages)
- Tea (462 languages)
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Sign Languages
- Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages (69 languages)
- Question Particles in Sign Languages (72 languages)
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Other
- Writing Systems (629 languages)
- Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks (357 languages)
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Conlang-specific
- Conlang type (802 languages)
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