Feature statistics

Most popular conlang features

Absence of Common Consonants: All present 929 languages 73.0%
Vowel Nasalization: Contrast absent 907 languages 71.3%
Glottalized Consonants: No glottalized consonants 851 languages 66.9%
Tone: No tones 841 languages 66.1%
Uvular Consonants: None 748 languages 58.8%
Front Rounded Vowels: None 744 languages 58.5%
Lateral Consonants: /l/, no obstruent laterals 692 languages 54.4%
Conlang type: Artlang 678 languages 53.3%
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems: None missing in /p t k b d g/ 643 languages 50.6%
Finger and Hand: Different 600 languages 47.2%
Presence of Uncommon Consonants: None 595 languages 46.8%
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives: In both plosives and fricatives 585 languages 46.0%
Hand and Arm: Different 550 languages 43.2%
Order of Subject and Verb: SV 524 languages 41.2%
Obligatory Possessive Inflection: Absent 512 languages 40.3%
The Velar Nasal: No velar nasal 510 languages 40.1%
Fixed Stress Locations: No fixed stress 509 languages 40.0%
Syllable Structure: Moderately complex 504 languages 39.6%
Consonant-Vowel Ratio: Average 496 languages 39.0%
Red and Yellow: Red vs. yellow 493 languages 38.8%

Most common natlang features

Front Rounded Vowels: None 115 languages 90.6%
Absence of Common Consonants: All present 112 languages 88.2%
The Optative: Inflectional optative absent 109 languages 85.8%
Verbal Number and Suppletion: None 101 languages 79.5%
Antipassive Constructions: No antipassive 101 languages 79.5%
Order of Subject and Verb: SV 99 languages 78.0%
Uvular Consonants: None 99 languages 78.0%
Presence of Uncommon Consonants: None 98 languages 77.2%
N-M Pronouns: No N-M pronouns 97 languages 76.4%
Glottalized Consonants: No glottalized consonants 96 languages 75.6%
Obligatory Possessive Inflection: Absent 96 languages 75.6%
M-T Pronouns: No M-T pronouns 91 languages 71.7%
Vowel Nasalization: Contrast absent 89 languages 70.1%
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions: Morphological but no compound 89 languages 70.1%
Tone: No tones 85 languages 66.9%
Lateral Consonants: /l/, no obstruent laterals 83 languages 65.4%
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives: Exclusively concatenative 82 languages 64.6%
Polar Questions: Question particle 80 languages 63.0%
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns: No inclusive/exclusive 78 languages 61.4%
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns: No gender distinctions 77 languages 60.6%

Unused values for features (1)

Conlangs with no features