CALS: Language: Chharang

Features for Chharang

Consonant Inventories ^WALS	Large
62 if geminates are analysed as separate consonants; 31 otherwise.
Vowel Quality Inventories ^WALS	Average (5-6)
6 vowel qualities: /a e i o u ə/.
Consonant-Vowel Ratio ^WALS	High
10.33 if geminates are analysed as separate consonants; 5.17 otherwise.
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives ^WALS	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems ^WALS	Other
Uvular Consonants ^WALS	Uvular stops and continuants
Glottalized Consonants ^WALS	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants ^WALS	/l/, no obstruent laterals
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
Fixed Stress Locations ^WALS	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress ^WALS	Left-edge: First or second
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems ^WALS	Combined
Absence of Common Consonants ^WALS	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants ^WALS	None

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives ^WALS	Exclusively concatenative
Reduplication ^WALS	Productive full and partial reduplication

Number of Genders ^WALS	Two
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems ^WALS	Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment ^WALS	Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality ^WALS	No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality ^WALS	No nominal plural
The Associative Plural ^WALS	Unique periphrastic 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	Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection ^WALS	Inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives ^WALS	Three-way contrast
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	No gender distinctions
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns ^WALS	Binary politeness distinction
Person Marking on Adpositions ^WALS	Pronouns only
Comitatives and Instrumentals ^WALS	Differentiation
Numeral Classifiers ^WALS	Obligatory
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes ^WALS	No possessive affixes

Obligatory Possessive Inflection ^WALS	Absent
Possessive Classification ^WALS	Three to five classes
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses ^WALS	Weakly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns ^WALS	Marked by preceding word
Noun Phrase Conjunction ^WALS	'And' identical to 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction ^WALS	Differentiation

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect ^WALS	No grammatical marking
The Past Tense ^WALS	Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense ^WALS	No inflectional future
The Perfect ^WALS	No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes ^WALS	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative ^WALS	No second-person imperatives
The Optative ^WALS	Inflectional optative present

Order of Subject, Object and Verb ^WALS	No dominant order
SVO/VSO.
Order of Subject and Verb ^WALS	No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb ^WALS	VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb ^WALS	XVO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase ^WALS	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun ^WALS	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun ^WALS	Noun-Adjective
Order of Numeral and Noun ^WALS	Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun ^WALS	Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective ^WALS	Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles ^WALS	In either of two positions
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions ^WALS	Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase ^WALS	VO and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun ^WALS	VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun ^WALS	VO and NAdj
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ^WALS	[V-Neg]

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases ^WALS	Neutral
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns ^WALS	Neutral
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	Neutral
Expression of Pronominal Subjects ^WALS	Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	Zero in some 3sg forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb ^WALS	P precedes A
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' ^WALS	Indirect-object construction
Passive Constructions ^WALS	Present
Antipassive Constructions ^WALS	No antipassive
Applicative Constructions ^WALS	Benefactive and other; both bases
Negative Morphemes ^WALS	Negative affix
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation ^WALS	Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation ^WALS	Non-assignable
Polar Questions ^WALS	Question particle
Predicative Possession ^WALS	Locational
Predicative Adjectives ^WALS	Nonverbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication ^WALS	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals ^WALS	Impossible

Hand and Arm ^WALS	Identical
Finger and Hand ^WALS	Different
Numeral Bases ^WALS	Hybrid vigesimal-decimal
Green and Blue ^WALS	Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow ^WALS	Red vs. yellow
Tea ^WALS	Words derived from Sinitic cha

Writing Systems ^WALS	Alphabetic

Conlang type	Artlang

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