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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Moderately large
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Other
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops and continuants
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
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
Rhythm Types WALS No rhythmic stress
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Clicks

Morphology

Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + TAM
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 0-1 category per word
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Zero-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Little affixation
Reduplication WALS Full reduplication only
Case Syncretism WALS No syncretism
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS No subject person/number marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Two
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Number-indifferent pronouns
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS No 'we'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No person marking
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person singular only
Number of Cases WALS 3 cases
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case stem change
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Identity
Numeral Classifiers WALS Obligatory
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect tone
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS None

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 Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS VOX
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral only modifies verb

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Extended body-part system
M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

Other

Writing Systems WALS Syllabic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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