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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Large 
http://kneequickie.com/kq/Kannow#Consonants
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6) 
a e ə i ɨ u, long vowels can occur but are marginal and usually resulting from elision or vowel clusters, so I didn't include them -- http://kneequickie.com/kq/Kannow#Vowels
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants WALS Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants WALS No /l/, but lateral obstruents 
t͡ɬʰ d͡ɮ t͡ɬʼ
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Complex 
Only certain consonants can appear in positions not immediately adjacent to a vowel, but there's no restriction on the size of a cluster of those consonants.
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Penultimate
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Fixed stress
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Long vowel
Rhythm Types WALS Trochaic
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No fricatives 
No phonemic distinction between fricatives and plosives; variation between the two is mostly free. /h/ occurs but patterns with approximants.
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + number
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 10-11 categories per word 
Incorporation, negation, 'manner' (catchall term for, mostly, things that would be expressed as adverbs in English), tense, mood, voice, evidentiality (those four marked on the same morpheme!), three agreement slots.
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Head marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Inconsistent or other
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Weakly prefixing 
Verbal morphology is prefixing, except for (most) agreement markers; what little nominal morphology exists is suffixing.
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS No case marking
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Syncretic

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
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix 
Number marking is only obligatory for indefinite nouns; for definites, all that's used is verb marking.
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Definite Articles WALS Definite affix
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite affix
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Two-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Identical
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No gender distinctions
Number of Cases WALS 2 cases

Nominal Syntax

Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Highly differentiated
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' different from 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS Differentiation

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
The Perfect WALS No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect prefixes
The Morphological Imperative WALS Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + normal negative
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative present
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality WALS Part of the tense system
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS Aspect

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS VSO
Order of Subject and Verb WALS VS
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Adjective-Noun
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS [Neg-V]
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS NegVSO

Simple Clauses

Verbal Person Marking WALS Both the A and P arguments

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