Features for Iliatarian (Sulutmuri & Ngwano)

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Uvular Consonants WALS None
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 No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Labial-velars

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 4-5 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Other
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Head marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Equal prefixing and suffixing
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS No subject person/number marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No independent subject pronouns
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
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Four-way contrast
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Unrelated
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Exists
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Genitives and adjectives collapsed

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS No perfect
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent

Word Order

Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS XVO
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 Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS Type 3 / Negative Infix

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Neutral
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS None
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Subject affixes on verb
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS Zero in all 3sg forms
Reciprocal Constructions WALS No reciprocals
Passive Constructions WALS Absent
Antipassive Constructions WALS No antipassive
Applicative Constructions WALS No applicative construction
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative affix

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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