Features for Modern Bengenese

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Second
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Not predictable
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present

Morphology

Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 0-1 category per word
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Equal prefixing and suffixing
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS No case marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always optional
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem
Definite Articles WALS Definite affix
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person only, but also non-singular
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Generic-noun-based
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Nominal Syntax

Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by preceding word

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
The Perfect WALS Other perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect suffixes
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + normal negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems WALS Minimal system
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent
Coding of Evidentiality WALS No grammatical evidentials
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS Singular-plural pairs, no suppletion

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SVO
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS No question particle
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS NegV
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS SNegVO

Simple Clauses

Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A precedes P
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Indirect-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions WALS Identical to reflexive
Passive Constructions WALS Present
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative particle
Polar Questions WALS Interrogative word order
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Impossible

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 6
Tea WALS Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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