| Lojban | Loglan |
|---|
| Consonant Inventories WALS |
Moderately large |
Moderately large |
| Vowel Quality Inventories WALS |
Average (5-6) |
Average (5-6) |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS |
Average |
Average |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS |
In both plosives and fricatives |
In both plosives and fricatives |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS |
None missing in /p t k b d g/ |
None missing in /p t k b d g/ |
| Uvular Consonants WALS |
Uvular continuants only |
– |
| Glottalized Consonants WALS |
No glottalized consonants |
– |
| Lateral Consonants WALS |
/l/, no obstruent laterals |
/l/, no obstruent laterals |
| The Velar Nasal WALS |
No velar nasal |
– |
| Vowel Nasalization WALS |
Contrast absent |
Contrast absent |
| Front Rounded Vowels WALS |
None |
None |
| Syllable Structure WALS |
Complex |
Moderately complex |
| Tone WALS |
No tones |
No tones |
| Fixed Stress Locations WALS |
Penultimate |
– |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS |
Fixed stress |
– |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS |
No weight |
– |
| Rhythm Types WALS |
Undetermined |
– |
| Absence of Common Consonants WALS |
All present |
All present |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS |
None |
– |
| Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS |
Exclusively isolating |
Exclusively isolating |
| Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS |
No case |
No case |
| Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS |
0-1 category per word |
0-1 category per word |
| Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS |
No marking |
No marking |
| Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS |
No marking |
No marking |
| Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS |
Zero-marking |
Zero-marking |
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS |
Little affixation |
– |
| Reduplication WALS |
No productive reduplication |
– |
| Case Syncretism WALS |
No case marking |
No case marking |
| Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS |
No subject person/number marking |
No subject person/number marking |
| Number of Genders WALS |
None |
None |
| Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS |
No gender |
No gender |
| Systems of Gender Assignment WALS |
No gender |
– |
| Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS |
No plural |
– |
| Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS |
No nominal plural |
– |
| Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS |
Number-indifferent pronouns |
– |
| The Associative Plural WALS |
No associative plural |
– |
| Definite Articles WALS |
Definite word distinct from demonstrative |
Definite word distinct from demonstrative |
| Indefinite Articles WALS |
Indefinite word distinct from 'one' |
Indefinite word distinct from 'one' |
| Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS |
Inclusive/exclusive |
Inclusive/exclusive |
| Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS |
No person marking |
– |
| Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS |
Three-way contrast |
Three-way contrast |
| Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS |
Different stem |
– |
| Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS |
Unrelated |
– |
| Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS |
No gender distinctions |
– |
| Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS |
No politeness distinction |
– |
| Indefinite Pronouns WALS |
Special |
Special |
| Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS |
Differentiated |
– |
| Person Marking on Adpositions WALS |
No person marking |
– |
| Number of Cases WALS |
No morphological case-marking |
– |
| Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS |
No case-marking |
– |
| Position of Case Affixes WALS |
No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS |
Differentiation |
– |
| Ordinal Numerals WALS |
One-th, two-th, three-th |
One-th, two-th, three-th |
| Distributive Numerals WALS |
Marked by preceding word |
Marked by preceding word |
| Numeral Classifiers WALS |
Absent |
Absent |
| Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers WALS |
Formally different |
Formally different |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS |
No possessive affixes |
No possessive affixes |
| Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS |
Absent |
– |
| Possessive Classification WALS |
Three to five classes |
– |
| Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS |
Highly differentiated |
– |
| Adjectives without Nouns WALS |
Without marking |
– |
| Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS |
'And' different from 'with' |
– |
| Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS |
Differentiation |
– |
| Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS |
No grammatical marking |
– |
| The Past Tense WALS |
Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions |
Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions |
| The Future Tense WALS |
No inflectional future |
– |
| The Perfect WALS |
Other perfect |
– |
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS |
No tense-aspect inflection |
No tense-aspect inflection |
| The Morphological Imperative WALS |
No second-person imperatives |
– |
| The Prohibitive WALS |
Normal imperative + normal negative |
– |
| The Optative WALS |
Inflectional optative absent |
– |
| Situational Possibility WALS |
Other kinds of markers |
– |
| Epistemic Possibility WALS |
Other |
– |
| Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking WALS |
No overlap |
– |
| Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS |
Direct and indirect |
– |
| Coding of Evidentiality WALS |
Separate particle |
Separate particle |
| Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS |
None |
– |
| Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS |
None |
– |
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS |
SVO |
SVO |
| Order of Subject and Verb WALS |
SV |
SV |
| Order of Object and Verb WALS |
VO |
VO |
| Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS |
VOX |
VOX |
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS |
Prepositions |
Prepositions |
| Order of Genitive and Noun WALS |
Noun-Genitive |
– |
| Order of Adjective and Noun WALS |
Adjective-Noun |
Adjective-Noun |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS |
Demonstrative-Noun |
Demonstrative-Noun |
| Order of Numeral and Noun WALS |
Numeral-Noun |
Numeral-Noun |
| Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS |
Noun-Relative clause |
– |
| Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS |
Adjective-Degree word |
– |
| Position of Polar Question Particles WALS |
Other position |
– |
| Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS |
Not initial interrogative phrase |
– |
| Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS |
Initial subordinator word |
– |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS |
VO and Prepositions |
VO and Prepositions |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS |
VO and NRel |
– |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS |
VO and AdjN |
– |
| Verbal Person Marking WALS |
No person marking |
No person marking |
| Reciprocal Constructions WALS |
Distinct from reflexive |
Distinct from reflexive |
| Passive Constructions WALS |
Present |
Present |
| Negative Morphemes WALS |
Negative particle |
– |
| Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS |
Symmetric |
– |
| Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS |
Non-assignable |
– |
| Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation WALS |
No predicate negation |
– |
| Polar Questions WALS |
Question particle |
Question particle |
| Predicative Possession WALS |
Topic |
– |
| Predicative Adjectives WALS |
Verbal encoding |
– |
| Comparative Constructions WALS |
Exceed |
– |
| Hand and Arm WALS |
Different |
Different |
| Finger and Hand WALS |
Different |
Different |
| Numeral Bases WALS |
Decimal |
Decimal |
| Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS |
11 |
– |
| Green and Blue WALS |
Green vs. blue |
Green vs. blue |
| Red and Yellow WALS |
Red vs. yellow |
Red vs. yellow |
| M-T Pronouns WALS |
M-T pronouns, paradigmatic |
– |
| N-M Pronouns WALS |
No N-M pronouns |
– |
| Writing Systems WALS |
Alphabetic |
Alphabetic |
| Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks WALS |
Other or none |
– |
| Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS |
NegV |
– |
| Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS |
SNegVO |
– |
| Conlang type |
Engelang |
– |
