Sl.No. | Feature | Value | Area |
1 | Consonant Inventories | large 34 | Phonology |
2 | Vowel Quality Inventories | large 9 | Phonology |
3 | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | avrage 3.7 | Phonology |
4 | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | Phonology |
5 | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | Phonology |
6 | Uvular Consonants | Absent | Phonology |
7 | Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | Phonology |
8 | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology |
9 | The Velar Nasal | No initial velar nasal | Phonology |
10 | Vowel Nasalization | Contrast present /õ/ /ɽõɖ/ ‘stone’, /ã/ /pãːj/ ‘waterʼ, /ĩ/ /soĩj/ ‘daughter-in- law' father ʼ
/ũ/ /aːũː/ ‘ɪʼ, /ẽ/ /hẽɡ/ ‘hornʼ, /ɛ̃/ /lɛ̃s/ ‘eunuch.’ | Phonology |
11 | Front Rounded Vowels | mid : /ɛ / | Phonology |
12 | Syllable Structure | Moderately complex ccvcc | Phonology |
13 | Absence of Common Consonants | All present: bilabial, fricative, nasal | Phonology |
14 | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | none | Phonology |
15 | Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative | Morphology |
16 | Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Monoexponential case | Morphology |
17 | Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection | TAM+agreement | Morphology |
18 | Locus of Marking in the Clause | Double marking | Morphology |
19 | Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Dependent marking | Morphology |
20 | Zero Marking of A and P Arguments | Non-zero marking | Morphology |
21 | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | Morphology |
22 | Reduplication | both partial and full: /tjez - tjez/ ‘quickly’, /dostɨ- vostɨ/ ‘friends and like ’ | Morphology |
23 | Case Syncretism | non-core : locative=dative //-as/ | Morphology |
24 | Number of Genders | TWO | Nominal Categories |
25 | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | Sex based | Nominal Categories |
26 | Systems of Gender Assignment | semantic and formal | Nominal Categories |
27 | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural prefix and vowel modificiation /bəɖ kitab/ 'books', /nuk/ ‘child’ /nikɨ/ ‘children’ | Nominal Categories |
28 | Definite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories |
29 | Indefinite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories |
30 | Definite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories |
31 | Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns | No inclusive/exclusive | Nominal Categories |
32 | Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Two-way contrast: proximate /ji: jim/ 'this: these' | Nominal Categories |
33 | Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | Nominal Categories |
34 | Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns | No politeness distinction | Nominal Categories |
35 | Indefinite Pronouns | Generic-noun-based: /kats ti/ ‘no one’ , / kãts / ‘nobody’ , /har kə̃tsɨ / everybody’ | Nominal Categories |
36 | Person Marking on Adpositions | No person marking | Nominal Categories |
37 | Number of Cases | Seven | Nominal Categories |
38 | Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | Nominal Categories |
39 | Ordinal Numerals | First/one-th, two-th, three-th | Nominal Categories |
40 | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive suffixes: /mioːn nikʰ cʰu / ‘my children’ | Nominal Categories |
41 | Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | Grammatical marking | Verbal Categories |
42 | The Past Tense | present, no remoteness marker | Verbal Categories |
43 | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories |
44 | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | V2 language (no dominant Word Order) SVO : /me paʃtu dʒaːnvar/ ‘I saw the birdʼ SOV : /ãv cʰus jur jet/ ‘I come here’ | Word Order |
45 | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order |
46 | Order of Object and Verb | OV : /bazaːr dʒiː/ ‘come to the bazaar’ | Word Order |
47 | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | Word Order |
48 | Order of Genitive and Noun | gen-noun: /tisaj dʒaːj/ his houses | Word Order |
49 | Order of Adjective and Noun | adj-noun: /asɨl nikɨ/ ɡood boys | Word Order |
50 | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | Word Order |
51 | Order of Numeral and Noun | Num-N | Word Order |
52 | Order of Relative Clause and Noun | Mixed | Word Order |
53 | Languages with two Dominant Orders of Subject, Object, and Verb | SOV or SVO | Word Order |
54 | Negative Morphemes | Negative particle: /chunɨ/, /mɨ/, /nɨ/, /chun/, /nu/ and /na/ | Lexicon |