Features for draga

Phonology

Consonant Inventories ^WALS	Moderately large
p, ph, f, m, w, p", b d, t, ty, t', s, l, t", z c, ch, j, x, ñ, y q, qh, kw, ky, h, g, q", '
Vowel Quality Inventories ^WALS	Large (7-14)
i í a á o ú e ou r
Consonant-Vowel Ratio ^WALS	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives ^WALS	In fricatives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems ^WALS	Other
Uvular Consonants ^WALS	Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants ^WALS	Ejectives, implosives, and glottalized resonants
t' ejective 't' b bilabial implosive h voiceless glottal fricative g voiced glottal fricative
Lateral Consonants ^WALS	/l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal ^WALS	No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization ^WALS	Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels ^WALS	None
Syllable Structure ^WALS	Moderately complex
Tone ^WALS	Simple tone system
Fixed Stress Locations ^WALS	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress ^WALS	Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems ^WALS	Combined
Absence of Common Consonants ^WALS	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants ^WALS	Clicks

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives ^WALS	Exclusively isolating
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives ^WALS	No case
Locus of Marking in the Clause ^WALS	Other
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases ^WALS	Other

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 clitic
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	Person stem + nominal plural affix
Definite Articles ^WALS	Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles ^WALS	Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns ^WALS	Inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives ^WALS	Five (or more)-way contrast
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	No gender distinctions
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns ^WALS	Pronouns avoided for politeness
Indefinite Pronouns ^WALS	Special
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns ^WALS	Identical
Person Marking on Adpositions ^WALS	No person marking
Number of Cases ^WALS	No morphological case-marking
Comitatives and Instrumentals ^WALS	Differentiation
Ordinal Numerals ^WALS	Various
Distributive Numerals ^WALS	No distributive numerals
Numeral Classifiers ^WALS	Optional
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers ^WALS	Formally different

Nominal Syntax

Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses ^WALS	Weakly differentiated

Action Nominal Constructions ^WALS	Other
Noun Phrase Conjunction ^WALS	'And' different from 'with'

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect ^WALS	No grammatical marking
The Future Tense ^WALS	No inflectional future
The Optative ^WALS	Inflectional optative absent
Situational Possibility ^WALS	Other kinds of markers
Epistemic Possibility ^WALS	Other
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality ^WALS	Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality ^WALS	Separate particle
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect ^WALS	None
Verbal Number and Suppletion ^WALS	None

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb ^WALS	No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun ^WALS	Mixed
Order of Numeral and Noun ^WALS	Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective ^WALS	No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles ^WALS	Initial

Simple Clauses

Reciprocal Constructions ^WALS	Distinct from reflexive
Passive Constructions ^WALS	Absent
Polar Questions ^WALS	Question particle
Nominal and Locational Predication ^WALS	Different

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects ^WALS	Pronoun-retention
Relativization on Obliques ^WALS	Pronoun-retention
'Want' Complement Subjects ^WALS	Desiderative particle
Purpose Clauses ^WALS	Balanced
'When' Clauses ^WALS	Balanced
Reason Clauses ^WALS	Balanced

Lexicon

Hand and Arm ^WALS	Different
pos upper arm t'emña forearm xeaf hand chaq finger
Finger and Hand ^WALS	Different
Numeral Bases ^WALS	Other base
base 6: yifa 1 hyawo 7 dowx-xwae 18 yeña 2 fawo 8 woxe-xwae 24 dowxa 3 píi 9 mouxe-xwae 30 waer 4 qhowae 10 welo 36 mawo 5 amwae 11 welo-welo 1,296 xweilo 6 ñe-xwae 12
Number of Basic Colour Categories ^WALS	8-8.5
qhlui - White teñiq - Blue / Purple siha - Green faer - Red chihya - Black woyoq - Brown / Tan / Gray síar - Yellow / Orange tyasi - Light blue
Green and Blue ^WALS	Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow ^WALS	Red vs. yellow
M-T Pronouns ^WALS	M-T pronouns, paradigmatic
N-M Pronouns ^WALS	No N-M pronouns
Tea ^WALS	Words derived from Sinitic cha

Other

Writing Systems ^WALS	Mixed logographic–syllabic
Actually, the writing system is mixed logographic-alphabetic: Gramatical morphemes and certain common lexical morphemes are represented logographically, while the remainder of lexical morphemes are represented alphabetically.

Writing Systems ^WALS

Mixed logographic–syllabic

Actually, the writing system is mixed logographic-alphabetic:
Gramatical morphemes and certain common lexical morphemes are represented logographically, 
while the remainder of lexical morphemes are represented alphabetically.

Conlang-specific

Conlang type	Other

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Features for draga

Phonology

Morphology

Nominal Categories

Nominal Syntax

Verbal Categories

Word Order

Simple Clauses

Complex Sentences

Lexicon

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