Features for Rarlang

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Large
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In fricatives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Both missing
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular continuants only
Glottalized Consonants WALS Ejectives and glottalized resonants
Lateral Consonants WALS No /l/, but lateral obstruents
The Velar Nasal WALS No initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast present
Front Rounded Vowels WALS Mid only
Syllable Structure WALS Simple
Tone WALS Complex tone system
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Third
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Fixed stress
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS No weight
Rhythm Types WALS Dual: both trochaic and iambic
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No bilabials
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Clicks, pharyngeals, and 'th'

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Tonal/isolating
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + number
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 0-1 category per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Other
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Other
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Zero-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Little affixation
Reduplication WALS Full reduplication only
Case Syncretism WALS Core cases only
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS No subject person/number marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Four
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural tone
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, optional in inanimates
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No independent subject pronouns
The Associative Plural WALS No associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite, but indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite affix
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS No 'we'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No person marking
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Five (or more)-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Different inflection
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related for non-human reference
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person non-singular only
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Multiple politeness distinctions
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Existential construction
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS Differentiated
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS Pronouns and nouns
Number of Cases WALS 3 cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Qualitatively asymmetrical
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case tone
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Mixed
Ordinal Numerals WALS One, two, three
Distributive Numerals WALS Marked by following word
Numeral Classifiers WALS Optional
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers WALS Formally similar, without interrogative
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS Prefixes and suffixes

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS OSV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS OXV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Inpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Only internally-headed relative clauses
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative prefix
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral only modifies verb

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Extended body-part system

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Other

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