Features for Rugian

Consonant Inventories ^WALS	Average
Vowel Quality Inventories ^WALS	Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio ^WALS	Low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives ^WALS	In both plosives and fricatives
Uvular Consonants ^WALS	Uvular continuants only
Glottalized Consonants ^WALS	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants ^WALS	/l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal ^WALS	No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization ^WALS	Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels ^WALS	High and mid
Syllable Structure ^WALS	Complex
Tone ^WALS	No tones
Fixed Stress Locations ^WALS	Initial
Weight-Sensitive Stress ^WALS	Fixed stress
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems ^WALS	No weight
Absence of Common Consonants ^WALS	All present
[ɡ] is a fairly marginal phone in some dialects, being replaced by [ɣ] to a greater or lesser extent in various positions.
Presence of Uncommon Consonants ^WALS	None

Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives ^WALS	Case + number
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb ^WALS	4-5 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause ^WALS	Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases ^WALS	Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology ^WALS	Dependent-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology ^WALS	Weakly suffixing
Case Syncretism ^WALS	Core and non-core
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking ^WALS	Syncretic

Number of Genders ^WALS	Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems ^WALS	Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment ^WALS	Semantic and formal
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality ^WALS	All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	Person-number stem
Definite Articles ^WALS	Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles ^WALS	Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
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	No distance contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives ^WALS	Different stem
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	3rd person singular only
Indefinite Pronouns ^WALS	Interrogative-based
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns ^WALS	Differentiated
Person Marking on Adpositions ^WALS	No person marking
Number of Cases ^WALS	5 cases
Comitatives and Instrumentals ^WALS	Identity
Ordinal Numerals ^WALS	First, second, three-th
Numeral Classifiers ^WALS	Absent
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers ^WALS	Formally different
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes ^WALS	No possessive affixes

Obligatory Possessive Inflection ^WALS	Absent
Possessive Classification ^WALS	No possessive classification
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses ^WALS	Highly differentiated
Action Nominal Constructions ^WALS	Ergative-Possessive
Noun Phrase Conjunction ^WALS	'And' different from 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction ^WALS	Identity

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect ^WALS	Grammatical marking
The Past Tense ^WALS	Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense ^WALS	No inflectional future
The Perfect ^WALS	From possessive
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes ^WALS	Mixed type
The Optative ^WALS	Inflectional optative absent
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect ^WALS	Tense and aspect

Order of Subject, Object and Verb ^WALS	No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb ^WALS	No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb ^WALS	No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase ^WALS	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun ^WALS	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun ^WALS	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun ^WALS	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun ^WALS	Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun ^WALS	Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective ^WALS	Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles ^WALS	In either of two positions
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions ^WALS	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	Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun ^WALS	Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun ^WALS	Other

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases ^WALS	Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns ^WALS	Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	Accusative
Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	Only the A argument
Order of Person Markers on the Verb ^WALS	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' ^WALS	Indirect-object construction
Passive Constructions ^WALS	Present
Antipassive Constructions ^WALS	No antipassive
Negative Morphemes ^WALS	Negative affix
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation ^WALS	Predicate negation also present
Predicative Possession ^WALS	'Have'
Predicative Adjectives ^WALS	Nonverbal encoding
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals ^WALS	Impossible
Comparative Constructions ^WALS	Particle

Relativization on Subjects ^WALS	Relative pronoun
Relativization on Obliques ^WALS	Relative pronoun
'Want' Complement Subjects ^WALS	Subject is left implicit

Writing Systems ^WALS	Alphabetic

Conlang type	Artlang

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