Features for Nisela

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Front Rounded Vowels WALS High and mid
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS 'Th' sounds

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Number of Cases WALS 6-7 cases
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case suffixes

Verbal Categories

The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect suffixes

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 Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS Adjective-Degree word

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks WALS Other or none

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