Features for Old Soskish

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS Simple tone system

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively isolating
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS No marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Head marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Number-indifferent pronouns
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Exists

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS No past tense
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS No tense-aspect inflection
The Morphological Imperative WALS No second-person imperatives
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS VOS
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Noun-Relative clause
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS ObligDoubleNeg

Simple Clauses

Passive Constructions WALS Absent
Antipassive Constructions WALS No antipassive
Applicative Constructions WALS No applicative construction

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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