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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Moderately large
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average
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 No laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast present
Front Rounded Vowels WALS High and mid
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS Complex tone system
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Isolating/concatenative
Reduplication WALS Full reduplication only

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS No nominal plural
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Binary politeness distinction

Nominal Syntax

Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS OXV
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 Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Relative clause-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Mixed
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS OV and AdjN
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOVNeg

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 Optional pronouns in subject position
Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Indirect-object construction
Antipassive Constructions WALS Oblique patient
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative auxiliary verb
Polar Questions WALS Question particle
Predicative Possession WALS 'Have'
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Impossible

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Decimal

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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