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Phonology

Uvular Consonants WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Two
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Definite Articles WALS Definite affix
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Unrelated
Number of Cases WALS 2 cases
Ordinal Numerals WALS One-th, two-th, three-th
Numeral Classifiers WALS Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Nominal Syntax

Adjectives without Nouns WALS Without marking
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' different from 'with'

Verbal Categories

The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + special negative
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS OVX
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS OV and AdjN
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS [V-Neg]

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal
Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS 3-4

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

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Conlang type Artlang

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