Features for Sarikan

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS None
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 Complex
Tone WALS Simple tone system
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Long vowel
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Tonal/concatenative
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 4-5 categories per word
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strong prefixing
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Position of Case Affixes WALS Postpositional clitics

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Possessive Classification WALS No possessive classification
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Not without noun

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect prefixes
Imperative-Hortative Systems WALS Minimal system
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative present
Situational Possibility WALS Affixes on verbs

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 No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Postpositions
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS NegV
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS NegVSO

Simple Clauses

Verbal Person Marking WALS A or P argument
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
Polar Questions WALS Question particle

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Identical
Finger and Hand WALS Identical
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal
Green and Blue WALS Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow WALS Red/yellow

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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