Number of Genders WALS |
Five or more |
Five: Human, Animate, Tangible 1, Tangible 2, Abstract
Old Eremoran had a feminine human gender which later merged with the masculine. |
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS |
Non-sex-based |
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS |
Semantic |
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS |
Plural word |
udou |
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS |
All nouns, always optional |
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS |
Number-indifferent pronouns |
The Associative Plural WALS |
Unique affixal associative plural |
-(i)sur |
Definite Articles WALS |
No definite or indefinite article |
Indefinite Articles WALS |
No definite or indefinite article |
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS |
'We' the same as 'I' |
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS |
No person marking |
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS |
Three-way contrast |
Proximal: ko
Medial: hókio
Distal: ho |
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS |
Identical |
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS |
Related for non-human reference |
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS |
In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person |
Most notably, ôkar (feminine first and second person pronoun) |
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS |
Pronouns avoided for politeness |
Indefinite Pronouns WALS |
Generic-noun-based |
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS |
Identical |
Particle mi |
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS |
No person marking |
Number of Cases WALS |
No morphological case-marking |
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS |
No case-marking |
Position of Case Affixes WALS |
Postpositional clitics |
Almost every case is postpositional.
One, "ad", may be used prepositionally, but with a different meaning.
Another, "dir", must be used prepositionally. |
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS |
Differentiation |
Comitative: ku
Instrumental: bo |
Ordinal Numerals WALS |
One-th, two-th, three-th |
-(i)su:
idisu, nasusu, kumkusu, ...
(first, second, third, ...) |
Distributive Numerals WALS |
No distributive numerals |
Numeral Classifiers WALS |
Absent |
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers WALS |
Formally similar, without interrogative |
hans |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS |
No possessive affixes |
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