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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Large
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In fricatives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Both missing
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular continuants only
Glottalized Consonants WALS Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants WALS No /l/, but lateral obstruents
The Velar Nasal WALS No initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast present
Front Rounded Vowels WALS Mid only
Syllable Structure WALS Simple
Tone WALS Complex tone system
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Not predictable
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Lexical stress
Rhythm Types WALS No rhythmic stress
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No bilabials
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Pharyngeals and 'th'

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Tonal/concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + TAM
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strong prefixing
Reduplication WALS Full reduplication only
Case Syncretism WALS Core cases only
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Syncretic

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Four
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural tone
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, optional in inanimates
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person stem + nominal plural affix
The Associative Plural WALS No associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite, but indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite affix
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Only inclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS Only inclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS No distance contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Different stem
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related to non-remote demonstratives
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person non-singular only
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Pronouns avoided for politeness

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

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Conlang type Artlang

Comments:

  1. On Feb. 2, 2012, 6:37 p.m., Alex Sands wrote:
    I would love to see some translations and examples of this language!