Features for Huttese (fanmade)

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Phonology

Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Glottalized Consonants WALS Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS 'Th' sounds

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Isolating/concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 0-1 category per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Dependent marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Little affixation
Reduplication WALS Productive full and partial reduplication

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS No nominal plural
Definite Articles WALS Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles WALS No indefinite, but definite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Only inclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Different stem
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Generic-noun-based
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical
Position of Case Affixes WALS No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Differentiation
Andras Rajki cites the contrast of "fee" and "goo" to translate "with" in Ben Burtt's Star Wars Galaxy Phrase Book and Travel Guide as an example of the "severe inconsistencies" it contains rendering it a poor template for constructing a coherent grammar out of Huttese. However, the supposedly contradictory examples Burtt provides (Va foppa gee wontahumpa?"Does that come with a warranty?") and ("Jee ho poka foo creeda."I will pay with credit.") coincide perfectly with the comitative/instrumental distinction made in the vast majority of languages in the WALS sample, indiscriminately translated as one and the same word in most Western languages. Ironically enough, Rajki's presumable mother tongue, Hungarian, also at least partially makes this distinction.
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Nominal Syntax

Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by following word
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' different from 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS Differentiation

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS No tense-aspect inflection
The Morphological Imperative WALS No second-person imperatives
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + special negative
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 No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb WALS VS
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS VO and NAdj
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS NegV

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Neutral
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking WALS Neutral
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Subject pronouns in different 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
Passive Constructions WALS Present
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative particle
Polar Questions WALS Question particle
Predicative Possession WALS 'Have'
Predicative Adjectives WALS Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication WALS Identical
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Possible

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Other base
M-T Pronouns WALS M-T pronouns, paradigmatic
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

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