Features for Barthian

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
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
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word same as 'one'
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related for non-human reference
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Multiple politeness distinctions

Verbal Categories

The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SVO
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Initial interrogative phrase

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects WALS Pronoun-retention
Relativization on Obliques WALS Pronoun-retention

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal
M-T Pronouns WALS M-T pronouns, paradigmatic
N-M Pronouns WALS N-M pronouns, paradigmatic
Tea WALS Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

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