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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Small
/m̤ʲ ˀɴᵝ pʰ pʰʰ pʰʰʰ pʰʰʰʰ d̪͡ʼk͡xʼ ˀᶯɖ͡ʈ͡ɽ͡r̝ˡˤᶹʰ ʰc͡çʷ ᶮʄʱ k͡ʟ̥͓ˤʼ ᵑᵐɠ͡ɓᶣ/
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14)
/æ̃ ɑ ɶ̤ ɜ ɵˤ ʉ ɘʏ̯ ɞɯ̯ ɶɤ̯ ɘʉ̯æᵝ/
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Both missing
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants WALS Ejectives and implosives
Lateral Consonants WALS No /l/, but lateral obstruents
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
/æ̃/ is always heavily nasalized, but it doesn't contrast with a similar not-nasal vowel.
Front Rounded Vowels WALS Mid only
Syllable Structure WALS Complex
Tone WALS Complex tone system
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Second
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Fixed stress
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS No weight
Rhythm Types WALS Iambic
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Labial-velars

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively tonal
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + TAM
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 12-13 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Double marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Double marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Double-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Weakly prefixing
Reduplication WALS Productive full and partial reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS Core and non-core
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 and formal
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural tone
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Number of Cases WALS 6-7 cases 
Absolutive: Agent-like argument of an intransitive verb, patient-like argument of an transitive verb, recipient-like argument of a ditransitive verb.

Ergative-Accusative: Patient-like argument of an intransitive verb, agent-like argument of a transitive verb, patient/theme-like argument of a ditransitive verb.

Pegative: Agent-like argument of a ditransitive verb.

Ablocative: Where things are *not* located.

Sub-superessive: For spatial relationships a bit too Escheresque for the Surface image schema. 

Instrumentality: "I hate myself. But, maybe, maybe I could love myself. Maybe, my life can have a greater value. That's right!. I am no more or less than myself. I am me! I want to be myself! I want to continue existing in this world! My life is worth living here!"

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Conlang type Artlang

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