Features for Surang Jumbar

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Penultimate
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Monoexponential case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 2-3 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Dependent-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Weakly suffixing
Reduplication WALS Full reduplication only
Case Syncretism WALS No case marking
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS No subject person/number marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem + nominal plural affix 
The 2nd and 3rd person dual pronouns ("temedo" and "ketedo") consist of stem of the singular pronouns ("tem" resp. "ket") + the same dual suffix that is used on nouns ("-edo").
The Associative Plural WALS No associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No person marking
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Identical
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No gender distinctions
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Generic-noun-based
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS No person marking
Number of Cases WALS 10 or more cases 
It is unclear what should be counted as cases and what not in Surang Jumbar, but there are definitely more than ten of them. They are all expressed by adpositions.
Position of Case Affixes WALS No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Identity
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Possessive Classification WALS No possessive classification
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Without marking 
Some adjectives require at least a generic noun ("pi" for humanoids or "ga" for non-humanoids) while others can stand alone.
Action Nominal Constructions WALS Double-Possessive

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking 
The perfective is marked by the adverb "sara" (already).
The Past Tense WALS Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
The Perfect WALS No perfect 
An experiental perfect can be expressed by the adverb "sara" (already), which is also used for marking the perfective, but no resultative perfect exist.
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative WALS Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + normal negative 
The normal imperative is marked by the prefix "u-" or "w-", while the imperative (and all other moods as well) are negated by initial mutation of the verb stem. The mutation can however be considered to be an allomorph of the prefix.
Imperative-Hortative Systems WALS Maximal system
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS None
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS None

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS No dominant order 
There are far more prepositions than postpositions in Surang Jumbar. But the postpositions are much more frequently used, so no order can be considered dominant.
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
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS OV and NAdj

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking WALS Neutral
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Optional pronouns in subject position
Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Indirect-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions WALS Distinct from reflexive
Passive Constructions WALS Absent 
Using the topic postposition "ka" instead of the accusative "be" on the object has semantically the same meaning as a passive construction. However it fails to fulfill several of the criterias for passive constructions according to the WALS description, so Surang Jumbar is classified as not having a passive construction.
Antipassive Constructions WALS No antipassive
Applicative Constructions WALS Non-benefactive object; only intransitive 
Surang Jumbar has special transitivity increasing, and decreasing, suffixes. These suffixes code for tense at the same time, i.e. they are fusional.

The transitivity increasing suffixes can only be used for turning a by default intransitive verb transitive. The transitivity decreasing suffixes can be used either for turning a transitive verb intransitive, or for turning a ditransitive verb (mono)transitive.

When a ditransitive verb is turned monotransitive, the benefactive argument is dropped. All other cases concer only the direct object.
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative affix
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Symmetric
Polar Questions WALS Question particle
Predicative Adjectives WALS Mixed

Complex Sentences

'Want' Complement Subjects WALS Desiderative verbal affix

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Identical
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 4 
The basic color categories in Surang Jumbar are "mekwayek" (black/brown), "reronke" (green/blue), "sorsos" (red) and "kekva" (white/yellow).
Green and Blue WALS Green/blue
Red and Yellow WALS None
M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphasyllabic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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