Features for Caryatic

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS No voicing constrast 
The voiced/voiceless distinction in the transcription system actually represents a plain/aspirated contrast. All stops are actually voiceless. Liquids and nasals devoice when adjacent to a stop. Fricatives are voiced when between voiced sounds, voiceless otherwise.
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Other
Uvular Consonants WALS None 
[ʀʲ] is an acceptable pronunciation of /r/. Otherwise no uvulars.
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 present 
A nasal, before a homorganic consonant, is realized as nasalization of the previous vowel.
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Complex
Tone WALS Simple tone system 
Language probably has a pitch-accent, though this is not officially settled.
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Long vowel 
If a word contains any long vowels, the one nearest the beginning of the word is stressed, otherwise, the word is stressed on the first syllable.
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Ablaut/concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + number
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Dependent marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strongly suffixing
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Syncretic

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic and formal
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem
Definite Articles WALS Demonstrative word used as definite article
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word same as 'one'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Identical
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person only, but also non-singular
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS No politeness distinction
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS No person marking
Number of Cases WALS 3 cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Syncretism in relevant NP-types
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Identity

In fact, I never officially decided how comitatives are expressed in Caryatic. But as the instrumental postposition -sa derives from PIE *sm̥, a comitative "with," it is probably safe to assume the language merges the two.

Nominal Syntax

Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Highly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Without marking

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Final

Simple Clauses

Verbal Person Marking WALS Only the A argument
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different 
Hand = pūmā, -ās f. 
Arm = āmāss, āmāsah (m?)
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal
M-T Pronouns WALS M-T pronouns, paradigmatic 
ma = me
tua = you
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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