Sl.No. | Feature | Value | Area |
1 | Consonant Inventories | Moderately small (18) | Phonology |
2 | Vowel Quality Inventories | Large (9) | Phonology |
3 | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Low (2) | Phonology |
4 | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | Voicing contrast in fricatives alone (f,v) | Phonology |
5 | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Both missing (b,g) | Phonology |
6 | Uvular Consonants | None | Phonology |
7 | Glottalized Consonants | None | Phonology |
8 | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology |
9 | The Velar Nasal | Initial velar nasal | Phonology |
10 | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology |
11 | Syllable Structure | complex syllable structure (CVVC) | Phonology |
12 | Tone | No tones | Phonology |
13 | Absence of Common Consonants | All present (bilabial, fricative, nasal) | Phonology |
14 | Order of Adjective and Noun | Adj+N | Word Order |
15 | Negative Morphemes | prefix, infixation | Lexicon |