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Phonology

Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14)
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops only
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS Complex tone system
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Right-oriented: One of the last three
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Long vowel or coda consonant
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No bilabials

Morphology

Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS No case
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strong prefixing
Reduplication WALS Productive full and partial reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS No case marking

Nominal Categories

Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, optional in inanimates
The Associative Plural WALS No associative plural
Definite Articles WALS Demonstrative word used as definite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No indefinite, but definite 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
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Identical
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related for all demonstratives
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS No politeness distinction
Ordinal Numerals WALS One, two, three
Numeral Classifiers WALS Obligatory

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Exists
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Weakly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Without marking
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' identical to 'with'

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS No past tense
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality WALS Part of the tense system

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS VSO
Order of Subject and Verb WALS VS
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS Adjective-Degree word

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Ergative - absolutive

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