Sl.No. | Feature | Value | Area |
1 | Consonant Inventories | Average (19) | Phonology |
2 | Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (6) | Phonology |
3 | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average (3.16) | Phonology |
4 | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | Voicing contrast in plosives alone p t:b d | Phonology |
5 | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Missing /g/ | Phonology |
6 | Uvular Consonants | No uvulars | Phonology |
7 | Glottalized Consonants | No Glottalized Consonants | Phonology |
8 | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology |
9 | Velar Nasal | Velar nasal, also initially /ŋem.taŋ/ 'cheek', /nuŋak/ 'virgin, /riŋ/ 'neck' | Phonology |
10 | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology |
11 | Syllable structure | moderately complex syllable structure /ccvc/ | Phonology |
12 | Tone | Simple tone system : high and low /kə`i/ to pull kŋi 'I' | Phonology |
13 | Common Consonants | All present: bilabials, fricatives, nasals, lateral | Phonology |
14 | Uncommon consonants | none present: clicks, Labial-velars, Pharyngeals, 'th' sound | Phonology |
15 | Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Concatenative | Morphology |
16 | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | both prefix and suffix | Morphology |
17 | Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication: /zam-zam.mə/ 'slowly-slowly' /pəŋ.se-kə.se/ 'walking and walking' | Morphology |
18 | Case Syncretism | absent | Morphology |
19 | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | Nominal Categories |
20 | Number of Cases | 7 cases | Nominal Categories |
21 | Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | Nominal Categories |
22 | Ordinal Numerals | One-th, two-th, three-th | Nominal Categories |
23 | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | Word order |
24 | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word order |
25 | Order of Object and Verb | OV | Word order |
26 | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | Word order |
27 | Order of Genitive and Noun | Gen-N : /inkhar-ta poron-kha / 'door latch' | Word order |
28 | Order of Adjective and Noun | No dominant order | Word order |
29 | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun /əkəsəi thiŋ-i/ 'tall tree' | Word order |
30 | Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral / mot əkəsin / 'small banana' | Word order |
31 | Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Not initial interrogative phrase | Word order |
32 | The Prohibitive | Normal imperative + normal negative: /lut-mə-ro/ 'do not enter' | Word order |
33 | Position of Polar Question Particles | Final /hiwahi nəŋ nə-in-me/ 'is this your house' [-me is question affix] | Word order |
34 | Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | Lexicon |
35 | Numeral Bases | Decimal | Lexicon |