Features for Vitruvian

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Moderately large
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Depends on how one counts the vowels.  For the most part, y (i), w (u), and r are treated as terminal consonants (diphthongs = VC).
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/
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Simple
V VC VV VVC CV CVV CVC CVVC VCCV VCCVC CVCCV CVCCVC

Non-overlapping sets for initial and terminal consonants.  Medial consonants are geminated.
Tone WALS Simple tone system
Pitch accent mostly, as in Japanese or Swedish.  Lexical usage of tones is restricted mostly to defined ejaculations.

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS No gender
Definite Articles WALS Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Three-way contrast
Ordinal Numerals WALS One-th, two-th, three-th

Verbal Categories

The Past Tense WALS Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS VSO
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Noun-Relative clause

Simple Clauses

Passive Constructions WALS Present
Polar Questions WALS Question particle

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Other base
Base twelve numeral system, tho the system of weights and measures is built as if around a base of 360.
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 6
For saturated colors: non-spectral magenta, red, orange, yellow, chartreuse, green, cyan, blue, and purple.

For unsaturated colors: magenta thru orange = brown, yellow thru green = olive, cyan thru purple = "lithichrome".

For non-chromatic colors: black, gray, and white.
Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS 11
Green and Blue WALS Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow WALS Red vs. yellow
Tea WALS Others

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphasyllabic
Mostly alphabetic, but letterals for numbers and articles (which are all single syllables) are freely permitted in spelling longer words.  Pitch-stress notation disambiguates the usage of syllabic letterals.

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