Features for Kibaki

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Lateral Consonants WALS No laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Simple
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Long vowel
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Two
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural word
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person only, but also non-singular
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS No case-marking
Position of Case Affixes WALS No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Differentiation

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS No past tense
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS Other perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS No tense-aspect inflection
The Morphological Imperative WALS Second singular and second plural
Imperative-Hortative Systems WALS Both types of system
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent

Simple Clauses

Comparative Constructions WALS Locational

Lexicon

Green and Blue WALS Green vs. blue

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