CALS: Language: Siaswo

Features for Siaswo

Consonant Inventories ^WALS	Large
Vowel Quality Inventories ^WALS	Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio ^WALS	Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives ^WALS	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems ^WALS	Other
Uvular Consonants ^WALS	Uvular stops and continuants
Glottalized Consonants ^WALS	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants ^WALS	/l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal ^WALS	Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization ^WALS	Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels ^WALS	None
Syllable Structure ^WALS	Complex
Tone ^WALS	No tones
Fixed Stress Locations ^WALS	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress ^WALS	Left-edge: First or second
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems ^WALS	Long vowel or coda consonant
Rhythm Types ^WALS	Trochaic
Absence of Common Consonants ^WALS	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants ^WALS	None

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives ^WALS	Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives ^WALS	No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb ^WALS	12-13 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause ^WALS	Head marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases ^WALS	Other
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology ^WALS	Inconsistent or other
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology ^WALS	Strongly suffixing
Reduplication ^WALS	Productive full and partial reduplication
Case Syncretism ^WALS	No case marking
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking ^WALS	Not syncretic

Number of Genders ^WALS	Three
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems ^WALS	Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment ^WALS	Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality ^WALS	No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality ^WALS	No nominal plural
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns ^WALS	No independent subject pronouns
The Associative Plural ^WALS	No associative plural
Definite Articles ^WALS	No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles ^WALS	No definite or indefinite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns ^WALS	No 'we'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection ^WALS	Inclusive/exclusive
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
Ordinal Numerals ^WALS	First, two-th, three-th
Distributive Numerals ^WALS	Marked by reduplication
Numeral Classifiers ^WALS	Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes ^WALS	No possessive affixes

Obligatory Possessive Inflection ^WALS	Absent
Possessive Classification ^WALS	No possessive classification
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses ^WALS	Weakly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns ^WALS	Without marking
Action Nominal Constructions ^WALS	No action nominals
Noun Phrase Conjunction ^WALS	'And' different from 'with'

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect ^WALS	Grammatical marking
The Past Tense ^WALS	Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense ^WALS	Inflectional future exists
The Perfect ^WALS	Other perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes ^WALS	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative ^WALS	Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive ^WALS	Normal imperative + special negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems ^WALS	Neither type of system
The Optative ^WALS	Inflectional optative absent
Situational Possibility ^WALS	Affixes on verbs
Epistemic Possibility ^WALS	Affixes on verbs
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking ^WALS	No overlap
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality ^WALS	Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality ^WALS	Verbal affix or clitic
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect ^WALS	Tense and aspect
Verbal Number and Suppletion ^WALS	Singular-plural pairs, suppletion

Order of Adjective and Noun ^WALS	Only internally-headed relative clauses
Order of Relative Clause and Noun ^WALS	Internally headed
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause ^WALS	Subordinating suffix
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase ^WALS	Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun ^WALS	Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun ^WALS	Other
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ^WALS	[Neg-V]
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb ^WALS	Other

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases ^WALS	Neutral
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns ^WALS	Neutral
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	Accusative
Expression of Pronominal Subjects ^WALS	Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking ^WALS	No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb ^WALS	P precedes A
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' ^WALS	Double-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions ^WALS	Distinct from reflexive
Passive Constructions ^WALS	Present
Antipassive Constructions ^WALS	Implicit patient
Applicative Constructions ^WALS	Benefactive and other; both bases
Periphrastic Causative Constructions ^WALS	Purposive but no sequential
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions ^WALS	Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes ^WALS	Negative affix
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation ^WALS	Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation ^WALS	Non-assignable
Polar Questions ^WALS	Interrogative verb morphology
Predicative Possession ^WALS	'Have'
Predicative Adjectives ^WALS	Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication ^WALS	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals ^WALS	Impossible
Comparative Constructions ^WALS	Exceed

Relativization on Subjects ^WALS	Non-reduction
Relativization on Obliques ^WALS	Non-reduction
'Want' Complement Subjects ^WALS	Desiderative verbal affix
Purpose Clauses ^WALS	Deranked
'When' Clauses ^WALS	Balanced/deranked
Reason Clauses ^WALS	Balanced/deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses ^WALS	Balanced/deranked

Hand and Arm ^WALS	Different
Finger and Hand ^WALS	Different
Numeral Bases ^WALS	Decimal
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories ^WALS	6
Number of Basic Colour Categories ^WALS	8-8.5
Green and Blue ^WALS	Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow ^WALS	Red vs. yellow
M-T Pronouns ^WALS	No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns ^WALS	No N-M pronouns
Tea ^WALS	Others

Writing Systems ^WALS	Alphabetic
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks ^WALS	Other or none

Conlang type	Engelang

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