Sl.No. | Feature | Value | Area |
1 | Consonant Inventories | Average : 19 | Phonology |
2 | Vowel Quality Inventories | Large : 6 | Phonology |
3 | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Medium Large : 3.16 | Phonology |
4 | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives- /tәr/ ‘old’/dәr/ ‘bell’, /piaŋ/ ‘birth’/biaŋ/ ‘cheeks’,
| Phonology |
5 | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | /g/ missing | Phonology |
6 | Uvular Consonants | None | Phonology |
7 | Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | Phonology |
8 | Lateral Consonants | /l/ and no lateral obstruents | Phonology |
9 | Vowel Nasalization | Absent | Phonology |
10 | Velar Nasal | Velar nasal, also initially: /ŋa/ ‘fish’ /ceŋpan/ ‘moss’ /tiduŋ/ ‘river’ | Phonology |
11 | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology |
12 | Syllable structure | moderately complex syllable | Phonology |
13 | Tone | High & Low /ruό/ ‘bamboo’ /ruὸ/ ‘rain’ | Phonology |
14 | Common Consonants | All present: bilabials, fricatives, nasals | Phonology |
15 | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | Absent | Phonology |
16 | Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative | Morphology |
17 | Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Possessor is dependent-marked | Morphology |
18 | Locus of Marking in the Clause | Dependent marking | Morphology |
19 | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Weakly suffixing | Morphology |
20 | Reduplication | Full reduplication only: /hun hun/‘Sometimes’,
| Morphology |
21 | Case Syncretism | No syncretism | Morphology |
22 | Comitatives and Instrumentals | Identity: /-le/ | Morphology |
23 | Number of Genders | No gender distinctions | Nominal Categories |
24 | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | No gender system | Nominal Categories |
25 | Systems of Gender Assignment | No gender | Nominal Categories |
26 | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix : /-ηai/ / -ni/ | Nominal Categories |
27 | Indefinite Pronouns | Mixed indefinites | Nominal Categories |
28 | Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns | Person-number affixes : kᴐi-ni ‘we’ | Nominal Categories |
29 | Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns | No inclusive/exclusive | Nominal Categories |
30 | Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Two-way contrast: remote/ proximate: /hiva/ ‘this’ /sᴐva/ ‘that | Nominal Categories |
31 | Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Unrelated | Nominal Categories |
32 | Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns | No politeness distinction | Nominal Categories |
33 | Indefinite Pronouns | Generic-noun-based: /əlᴐma/ ‘all’, /əlᴐmpeia/‘everything’, /senkhat/‘someone’ | Nominal Categories |
34 | Number of Cases | 7 cases | Nominal Categories |
35 | Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | Nominal Categories |
36 | Ordinal Numerals | One-th, two-th, three-th: /əŋkhat-na/ ‘first’, /ənni-na/ ‘second’ | Nominal Categories |
37 | Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | Grammatical marking : /-sua/ suffixed for perfective, ǝ-in sua-zei 'slept' | Verbal Categories |
38 | Past Tense | absent | Verbal Categories |
39 | Future Tense | /-ti/ affix of future: /ǝma Itanagar ata hᴐŋin-ti/ ‘She will come from Itanagar’ | Verbal Categories |
40 | Perfect | Other perfect | Verbal Categories |
41 | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories |
42 | The Prohibitive | Normal imperative + special negative : /se-nɔ-rɔ/ Go-PROH-IMP ‘Don’t go!’ | Verbal Categories |
43 | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV: /əma(S) bu(o) ə-nek(v)/ ‘He eat rice’ | Word Order |
44 | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order |
45 | Order of Object and Verb | OV | Word Order |
46 | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | Word Order |
47 | Order of Adjective and Noun | NAdj : /naipǝsǝl ǝsǝ (Adj/ ‘good boy’ | Word Order |
48 | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | DemN: /hiva ui/ 'This dog' | Word Order |
49 | Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral: /mᴐt(N) khat(Num)/ ‘One banana’ | Word Order |
50 | Order of Relative Clause and Noun | Relative clause-Noun: /sua a-andiŋ pǝsǝl puso ka-parua/ ‘(The) boy who is standing there is my brother’ | Word Order |
51 | Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Not initial interrogative phrase: /in dik-mɔ(Q) 'Is it okay?’ | Word Order |
52 | Negative Morphemes | Negative affix /-mak/ | Simple Clauses |
53 | Numeral Bases | Decimal | Lexicon |