Features for Cirena

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Phonology

Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Penultimate

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively isolating
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication
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 word
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always optional
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Number-indifferent pronouns
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS No politeness distinction

Nominal Syntax

Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' identical to 'with'

Verbal Categories

The Morphological Imperative WALS Second person number-neutral

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS No dominant order
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

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Verbal Person Marking WALS No person marking
Predicative Possession WALS Genitive

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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