Features for clikli dialect

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Phonology

Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
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 velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast present

in the roman transcriptions given, the syllable-coda n represents the nasalization of the preceding vowel,

while the syllable-initial n represents the consonant /n/.

Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Simple
Tone WALS Complex tone system

three tones: high(marked with circumflex), mid(unmarked), low(mark with grave accent)

minimal pairs:

te - three

tê - the sun

tè - magnetic power

no - circle; ring

nô - wheel

nò - rule; formula

Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 0-1 category per word
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Little affixation

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 complete reduplication
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS Only human nouns, optional
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No person marking
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS No person marking
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical
Position of Case Affixes WALS No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Possessive Classification WALS No possessive classification

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS No tense-aspect inflection
The Morphological Imperative WALS No second-person imperatives
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS None
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS None

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SVO

like Romance languages, SVO when the object is a noun, SOV when the object is a pronoun.

Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Prepositions
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
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Initial
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS VO and AdjN
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS NegV
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS SNegVO

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Neutral
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Nominative - accusative (marked nominative)

At least in 1st and 2nd singular pronouns:

1st singular:

-Nominative: ize

-Long Objective(used with prepositions): zen

-Short Objective(used as direct and indirect objects, and shall thus precede verbs): ze

2nd singular:

-Nominative: ika

-Long Objective: kati

-Short Objective: ka

The nominative forms of 1.sg and 2.sg pronouns can be seen as adding an i-prefix to the short objective forms of them.

Note: Although Clikli Dialect is not a human language,

being neutral in the alignment of NPs but marked nominative in the alignment of pronouns,

is not completely inexistent in human languages of our world,

the Oirata language spoken on the island of Kisar in Indonesia also shows such a pattern:

http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~asw/lab/lab86/LAB86_Handschuh.pdf

Alignment of Verbal Person Marking WALS Neutral
Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Antipassive Constructions WALS No antipassive
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative particle
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Symmetric
Predicative Adjectives WALS Verbal encoding
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Possible

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects WALS Gap
Relativization on Obliques WALS Gap
'When' Clauses WALS Balanced

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Pure vigesimal
M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

Other

Writing Systems WALS Logographic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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