Features for Jajuna

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Large 
bcdfhjklmnpqrstvwxzðŋɖɡɣɱɸɾʃʈʎʒʔβθ
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14) 
aeiouyəɛ
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops and continuants
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS High and mid
Syllable Structure WALS Complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Combined
Rhythm Types WALS No rhythmic stress
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS 'Th' sounds

Morphology

Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent

Verbal Categories

The Past Tense WALS No past tense
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS From possessive

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 Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS VNeg
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS Other 
VNegSO

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Indirect-object construction
Passive Constructions WALS Absent
Polar Questions WALS Question particle
Comparative Constructions WALS Conjoined 
The phrase that is compared is simply positioned after the adjective/adverb.

bot  am  kat
boat big car
the boat that is bigger than the car (noun phrase)

e  am  kat la   bot
be big car SUBJ boat
The boat is bigger than the car. (complete sentence)

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