Features for Feayran

Share & Bookmark

Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Missing /p/
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular continuants only
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS Complex tone system 
Three tonal levels, twenty-two possible contour tones over each syllable.
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Not predictable
Rhythm Types WALS Undetermined
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS 'Th' sounds

Morphology

Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 12-13 categories per word 
Due to recent changes in grammar, Feayran verbs now synthesize more than 12 categories.
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Head marking 
Possessors now incorporated into phrase head.
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Equal prefixing and suffixing
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication

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 Mixed morphological plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number affixes
The Associative Plural WALS Associative same as additive plural
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
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Multiple politeness distinctions
Number of Cases WALS 10 or more cases
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case stem change
Numeral Classifiers WALS Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS Prefixes and suffixes

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Other base 
As of 1/16/2010, the number system is duodecimal.

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

Comments:

No comments yet