Features for Nuvelé

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Phonology

Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Definite Articles WALS Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Unrelated
Number of Cases WALS 5 cases
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Mixed
Ordinal Numerals WALS First, two-th, three-th

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Exists
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Not without noun

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + special negative
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent

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 XVO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS VO and NAdj
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS NegV

Simple Clauses

Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Passive Constructions WALS Present
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative word, unclear if verb or particle

Lexicon

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

Sign Languages

Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages WALS Some (2-5)
Question Particles in Sign Languages WALS None

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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