Sl.No. | Feature | Value | Area |
1 | Vowel Quality Inventories | Large (8) | Phonology |
2 | Reduplication | full reduplication: kimǝ kimǝŋa (each and every house), partial reduplication: la lad (engaged repeatedly). | Morphology |
3 | Case Syncretism | Inflectional case marking is syncretic for core (Erg-Abl) and non-core (Gen-Loc) | Morphology |
4 | Coding of Nominal Plurality | No plural: unmarked plurals. Infered from the xontext | Nominal Categories |
5 | Number of Cases | 6: Nom, Acc/ Dat, Erg/ Ag, Abl, Gen, Loc | Nominal Categories |
6 | Position of Case Affixes | sifixed to bare stem of substantive in singular and afte number suffixes in plural | Nominal Categories |
7 | The Future Tense | No inflectional future | Verbal Categories |
8 | The Perfect | expressed with past definite | Verbal Categories |
9 | The Optative | Inflectional optative present | Verbal Categories |
10 | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | Word Order |
11 | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order |
12 | Order of Object and Verb | OV | Word Order |
13 | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | Word Order |
14 | Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb | NegV | Word Order |
15 | Order of Degree Word and Adjective | Degree word-Adjective | Word Order |
16 | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | OV and Postpositions | Word Order |
17 | Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | Lexicon |