Features for Tsols Oswahe

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In fricatives alone 
Voicing contrasts only exist for the labial, alveolar, and alveolopalatal fricatives.
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 Complex 
Minimally V, though this can only occur word-initially; other syllables must have an onset. Codas may be a single consonant or an approximant plus a consonant, with the restriction that if the approximant is pharyngeal, only /s ɕ/ may follow.
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Pharyngeals 
This language has a voiceless pharyngeal fricative and a voiced pharyngeal approximant. The approximant is so classified in part due to its not patterning in the same way as other fricatives do with regards to word-initial allophones.

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Four
Definite Articles WALS Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word distinct from 'one'

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Other base 
Base-six number system.

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