Features for Ba'eni

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives 
Definitely phonemic for plosives. The status of fricatives is less clear.
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS None 
/r/ may be realized as [ʀʲ] before /e/
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants 
Voiced stops may be realized as implosives in emphatic or shouted speech. This is not phonemic.
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS No initial velar nasal 
Ba'eni has merged initial [ŋ] with /n/, but it is likely that closely related languages, or even certain speakers of Ba'eni itself, preserve this distinction.
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Penultimate 
The majority of words are accented on the second-to-last syllable, with the following complications:
•	For the purposes of this rule, V₁ʔV₁ counts as a single syllable. Thus, bawánzuʔu, ʔenwaraháʔari
•	Inflected forms of words may sometimes retain the accent of the citation form.
•	Clitic chains involving ba may be accented either on the penult or on the first syllable. Bákutu, bakútu.
•	A few words simply have anomalous lexical accents: e.g. digepí, ʔiná, numú
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS No weight
Rhythm Types WALS Iambic
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Dependent-marking 
If we apply the WALS definitions strictly, it is Zero Marking, as the default mark of posession is the preposition ʔen, and the marking for a primary transitive object is normally zero.
Reduplication WALS Productive full and partial reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS No case marking
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS No subject person/number marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory 
This feature is not certain. Among other possible complications, it seems likely that quantifiers used with numerals (e.g. "one sack of bread")  don't pluralize.
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Inclusive/exclusive 
The suffix pronouns do not mark plurality, so I/we are the same. But the distinction does exist in the full pronouns.
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No person marking 
The suffix pronouns do not mark plurality, so I/we are the same. But the distinction does exist in the full pronouns.
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Identical
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related for all demonstratives
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No gender distinctions
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Multiple politeness distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS Pronouns only
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Differentiation

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV 
Complicated, as in many languages, by the use of clitics.
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Prepositions
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Initial
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS VO and Prepositions

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Ergative - absolutive
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Ergative - absolutive
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Mixed
Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Polar Questions WALS Question particle
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Possible

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Decimal 
Evolved from a ternery system.
Tea WALS Others

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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