| Sl.No. | Feature | Value | Area |
| 1 | Consonant Inventories | Moderately large: 32 consonants | Phonology |
| 2 | Vowel Quality Inventories | Large: 10 vowels | Phonology |
| 3 | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average: 3.2 | Phonology |
| 4 | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | Voicing contrast in plosives only: p, b; k ,ɡ | Phonology |
| 5 | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d ɡ/ | Phonology |
| 6 | Uvular Consonants | Missing | Phonology |
| 7 | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology |
| 8 | The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | Phonology |
| 9 | Vowel Nasalization | Contrastive nasal vowel present: lengthening of vowels /i i:, e e:, o o:, ɑ ɑː, u u:/ phonemic contrast /sɑ̃/ | Phonology |
| 10 | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology |
| 11 | Syllable Structure | Complex syllable structure: Freer combinations of two consonants(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C) | Phonology |
| 12 | Tone | No tones | Phonology |
| 13 | Absence of Common Consonants | All present: bilabials, fricatives, nasals | Phonology |
| 14 | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | Phonology |
| 15 | Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative: morphologically or phonologically bound, need some other host word for their pronunciation and form one single phonological word together with that host. | Morphology |
| 16 | Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Monoexponential case | Morphology |
| 17 | Locus of Marking in the Clause | Double marking: Below, 'he’ and ‘ranga’ have case endings to indicate their syntactic functions, and the verb has affixes agreeing with both. Thus subject and object are marked on the subject and object and on the verb too.
ɑ:ɳɑ rɑŋɡɑ:-nɑ mɑ:r-jo
he-Nom ranga-Acc beat-Pst-3SgM (He beats Ranga). | Morphology |
| 18 | Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Dependent marking:
ɑ:ɳɑ mɑ:r-o t͡ʃʰijo (he is my son)
he I-Gen-M son the possessor is in the Gen case | Morphology |
| 19 | Zero Marking of A and P Arguments | Inconsistent marking or other type | Morphology |
| 20 | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Predominantly suffixing | Morphology |
| 21 | Reduplication | Full reduplication: eɡde eɡde ɑ:v (come quickly quickly) | Morphology |
| 22 | Case Syncretism | Inflectional case marking is syncretic for core cases only: Acc-Dat /nɑ/ | Morphology |
| 23 | Number of Genders | Two: Masculine Feminine | Nominal Categories |
| 24 | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | Sex-based | Nominal Categories |
| 25 | Systems of Gender Assignment | Semantic and formal assignment: Mostly, nouns ending with 'o' and 'j' is masculine, nouns ending with 'i' and '-ɳi' is feminine | Nominal Categories |
| 26 | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix: -ɑ: -ū -jĩ -ɑɖɑ: | Nominal Categories |
| 27 | Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | Plural in all nouns, always obligatory | Nominal Categories |
| 28 | Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns | Person-number stem | Nominal Categories |
| 29 | Definite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories |
| 30 | Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns | No inclusive/exclusive | Nominal Categories |
| 31 | Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Related to remote demonstratives: -jo: is remote demonstrative pronoun jo: mɑ:rũ (that is mine) | Nominal Categories |
| 32 | Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns | No politeness distinction | Nominal Categories |
| 33 | Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | 3rd person singular only: jo: 'he' ɑ:/ɑ:ɳi 'she' | Nominal Categories |
| 34 | Number of Cases | 6 case categories: Nom -ø Acc - nɑ,-ø Dat -nɑ,-in, -ø Inst -xũ Abl -tʰ Loc -mɑ | Nominal Categories |
| 35 | Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes: rɑŋɡɑ:-nɑ (Acc), gʰɑr-in (Dat) | Nominal Categories |
| 36 | Ordinal Numerals | One-th, two-th, three-th: bɑn-nu (second), trɑɳ-nu (third) | Nominal Categories |
| 37 | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive suffixes :mɑ:-r-ũ gʰɑr (my house) | Nominal Categories |
| 38 | Obligatory Possessive Inflection | No obligatorily possessed nouns: possessive pronouns always dependent with number and gender of noun | Nominal Syntax |
| 39 | Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses | Highly differentiated: no common strategies for encoding more than one of the three functions, each of the three functions is encoded by distinct grammatical strategies, genitive, adjective and relative clause respectively. | Nominal Syntax |
| 40 | Adjectives without Nouns | Not without noun: Always dependent on noun based on gender and number | Nominal Syntax |
| 41 | Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | Grammatical marking | Verbal Categories |
| 42 | The Past Tense | Past/non-past distinction marked; no remoteness distinction | Verbal Categories |
| 43 | The Future Tense | Inflectional future exists | Verbal Categories |
| 44 | The Perfect | Perfect derived from word meaning 'finish' or 'already' | Verbal Categories |
| 45 | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories |
| 46 | The Prohibitive | Normal imperative + special negative | Verbal Categories |
| 47 | Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect | Suppletion in both tense and aspect | Verbal Categories |
| 48 | Imperative-Hortative Systems | Neither type of system | Verbal Categories |
| 49 | The Optative | Inflectional optative present | Verbal Categories |
| 50 | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | Word Order |
| 51 | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order |
| 52 | Order of Object and Verb | OV | Word Order |
| 53 | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | Word Order |
| 54 | Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun: mɑ:-r-o t͡ʃʰijo (my son) | Word Order |
| 55 | Order of Adjective and Noun | Adjective-Noun: nillũ pɑnɑɖũ (green leaf) | Word Order |
| 56 | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun: ɑ: ɡʰɑr (this house) | Word Order |
| 57 | Order of Numeral and Noun | Numeral-Noun: bɑ: ɡʰɑr (two house) | Word Order |
| 58 | Order of Degree Word and Adjective | Degree word-Adjective: bɑɭtu pɑ:ni (hot water) | Word Order |
| 59 | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | OV and Postpositions: rɑ:mu mɑnnu d͡ʒoj-j-o (ram saw me (SOV)) | Word Order |
| 60 | Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases | nominative–accusative | Simple Clauses |
| 61 | Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Accusative | Simple Clauses |
| 62 | Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | Simple Clauses |
| 63 | Negative Morphemes | Negative affix /-ʃnɑ:/, / ko:ni/ | Simple Clauses |