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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Missing /p/
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
The Velar Nasal WALS No initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Penultimate
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Coda consonant
Rhythm Types WALS No rhythmic stress
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No bilabials
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Clicks

Morphology

Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strongly suffixing

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS No nominal plural
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem
The Associative Plural WALS Unique affixal associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
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 Two-way contrast
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS No politeness distinction
Number of Cases WALS Exclusively borderline case-marking
Position of Case Affixes WALS Postpositional clitics

Nominal Syntax

Adjectives without Nouns WALS Without marking

Verbal Categories

The Past Tense WALS No past tense
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS OSV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS OXV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Genitive-Noun
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 Mixed
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Final

Simple Clauses

Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Impossible

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Pure vigesimal
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 5
Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS 4.5-5.5
Green and Blue WALS Green/blue
Red and Yellow WALS Red vs. yellow
M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns
Tea WALS Others

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphasyllabic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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