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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Moderately low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS No initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent

however, in the more formal speech, the contrast between oral and nasal vowels exists, as a result of the disfixing process on an ending nasal consonant.

Front Rounded Vowels WALS High and mid
Syllable Structure WALS Complex
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Ablaut/concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 4-5 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Double marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Other
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Inconsistent or other
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Equal prefixing and suffixing
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication

in fact, the verbal agreement for 3>3 present forms of verbs do use a form of partial reduplication(prefixing the last consonant of the verb stem to the verb stem itself, when the verb stem is ended with a vowel, other rules are used(depending on whether the verb stem is ended with -e/-e: -o/-o: -a/-a: or -ra:), but they can be seen as variants of this partial reduplication rule) as well as the disfix of the last sound of the verb, an epenthetic vowel "i" may also be used in the reduplication process. for example, the present 3>3 form of the verb "nam"("to hold") is "mina", and the present 3>3 form of the verb "k-nam"("to hold") is "k-mina"(where the k- is a coverb, it is usually seperated from the stem and may take its own affixes in actual speech).

Case Syncretism WALS No case marking
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Syncretic

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Five or more
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic and formal
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural stem change
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Number-indifferent pronouns
The Associative Plural WALS Unique affixal associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS 'We' the same as 'I'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS 'We' the same as 'I'
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Two-way contrast
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No gender distinctions
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS No politeness distinction
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Mixed
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS Identical
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS No person marking

adpositions agree with the gender/class of the noun modifying them.

Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS No case-marking
Position of Case Affixes WALS No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Differentiation
Ordinal Numerals WALS First, two, three
Distributive Numerals WALS No distributive numerals
Numeral Classifiers WALS Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Possessive Classification WALS Two classes
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Moderately differentiated in other ways
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Without marking
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' identical to 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS Identity

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS From 'finish', 'already'
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative WALS Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + normal negative
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent
Situational Possibility WALS Other kinds of markers
Epistemic Possibility WALS Affixes on verbs
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking WALS Overlap for either possibility or necessity
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality WALS Verbal affix or clitic
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS None
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS Singular-plural pairs, suppletion

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS No dominant order

SOV/SVO, depending on the class of the object.

different objects use different word orders, but the word order for each object is fairy rigid and don't normally changed.

Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS No dominant order

some words mainly use the OV order; other words mainly use the VO order

Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS No dominant order

some adpositions are obliged to be postpositions, but other adpositions can be either prepositions or postpositions.

Order of Genitive and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative suffix
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral only modifies verb
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Mixed
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Final subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Other
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS Type 1 / Type 3
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS Other

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Active-inactive

the analytical postposition "a" is used on core arguments, the usage of the postpostion "a" depends on the existence of volition and the animacy of the noun it modifies.

when the agent of a transitive verb is an inanimate object, or when the agent of any verb is an unvolitional animate object(i.e. lack of control over the action, performs the action without the existence of volition, etc.), the postposition "a" is used;

when the patient is an animate object, the postposition "a" may be used or may not be used;

in other situations, the postposition "a" is not used.

Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Active - inactive
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking WALS Active
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking WALS Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A and P are fused
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Mixed

both of the Indirect-object construction and the Secondary-object construction can be used.

Reciprocal Constructions WALS Mixed
Passive Constructions WALS Absent
Antipassive Constructions WALS Implicit patient
Applicative Constructions WALS Benefactive and other; both bases
Periphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Both
Negative Morphemes WALS Variation between negative word and affix
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Non-assignable
Polar Questions WALS Question particle
Predicative Possession WALS Conjunctional
Predicative Adjectives WALS Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication WALS Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Impossible
Comparative Constructions WALS Exceed

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects WALS Non-reduction

Internally-headed relative clause is the main type of relative clause used for relativizing core arguments.

Relativization on Obliques WALS Non-reduction

doubly-headed relative clause is the main type of relative clause used for relativizing obliques.

'Want' Complement Subjects WALS Desiderative particle
Purpose Clauses WALS Deranked
'When' Clauses WALS Balanced/deranked
Reason Clauses WALS Balanced/deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses WALS Balanced

Lexicon

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

in writing, more formal situations or situations where numbers do matter(e.g. science, technology, financial, etc.), a quadrivigesimal(base-24) numeral system is used instead.

M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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