Features for Jel

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Large 
Pulmonic:
               alveolar  palatal   velar   uvular   glottal
         stop   t/tʰ/t'  c/cʰ/c'  k/kʰ/k'  q/qʰ/q'     ʔ
    fricative    θˢ̣/s      ç/ɕ       x                 h
        nasal     n         ɲ                 ɴ
  approximant     l         j        ɰ

Clicks:
               dental  lateral  palatal
       tenuis     ǀ       ǁ        ǂ 
    nazalized    ⁿǀ      ᵑǁ       ᵑǂ 
  glottalized     ǀˀ      ǁˀ       ǂˀ
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4) 
The consonant-vowel distinction is nowhere near as clear in Jel as it typically is, as everything but stops and clicks may be syllabic. The features involving this distinction may therefore be somewhat misleading, but I have gone with dividing them according to articulation for these rather than behavior in a syllable.

The prototypical vowels are /i/, /ɯ/, /a/ but there is a lot of variation in exact pronunciation due to phonemeic environment and dialect
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS No voicing constrast 
Distinction is between tenuis, aspirated, and ejective
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Other 
Voicing is unproductive across language, and there are no labial articulations
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops and continuants 
Full uvular plosive contrast, and the nasal /ɴ/
Glottalized Consonants WALS Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast present
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex 
CN(C) with closed syllables only at the end of a word, unless lexicalized through compounding
Tone WALS Simple tone system 
High/low distinction on voiced (pre-phonemic process) syllable nuclei, with additional mid tone contrast in vowels
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Second 
Compounds (head-final) minimize stress except on the final word
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Fixed stress
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS No weight
Rhythm Types WALS No rhythmic stress
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No bilabials
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Clicks 
Also has 'th', but no option to select the combination of the two

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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