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Phonology
- Consonant Inventories (1226 languages)
- Vowel Quality Inventories (1239 languages)
- Consonant-Vowel Ratio (1153 languages)
- Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives (1210 languages)
- Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems (1172 languages)
- Uvular Consonants (1199 languages)
- Glottalized Consonants (1174 languages)
- Lateral Consonants (1187 languages)
- The Velar Nasal (1194 languages)
- Vowel Nasalization (1182 languages)
- Front Rounded Vowels (1169 languages)
- Syllable Structure (1200 languages)
- Tone (1221 languages)
- Fixed Stress Locations (1020 languages)
- Weight-Sensitive Stress (878 languages)
- Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems (841 languages)
- Rhythm Types (741 languages)
- Absence of Common Consonants (1161 languages)
- Presence of Uncommon Consonants (1160 languages)
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Morphology
- Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives (883 languages)
- Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives (830 languages)
- Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb (803 languages)
- Locus of Marking in the Clause (820 languages)
- Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases (805 languages)
- Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology (755 languages)
- Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology (877 languages)
- Reduplication (863 languages)
- Case Syncretism (838 languages)
- Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking (835 languages)
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Nominal Categories
- Number of Genders (1112 languages)
- Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems (1069 languages)
- Systems of Gender Assignment (1024 languages)
- Coding of Nominal Plurality (1038 languages)
- Occurrence of Nominal Plurality (945 languages)
- Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns (875 languages)
- The Associative Plural (656 languages)
- Definite Articles (1013 languages)
- Indefinite Articles (991 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns (915 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection (900 languages)
- Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives (819 languages)
- Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives (665 languages)
- Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives (737 languages)
- Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns (867 languages)
- Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns (843 languages)
- Indefinite Pronouns (597 languages)
- Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns (578 languages)
- Person Marking on Adpositions (744 languages)
- Number of Cases (934 languages)
- Asymmetrical Case-Marking (747 languages)
- Position of Case Affixes (865 languages)
- Comitatives and Instrumentals (696 languages)
- Ordinal Numerals (732 languages)
- Distributive Numerals (517 languages)
- Numeral Classifiers (714 languages)
- Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers (463 languages)
- Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes (762 languages)
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Nominal Syntax
- Obligatory Possessive Inflection (782 languages)
- Possessive Classification (735 languages)
- Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses (649 languages)
- Adjectives without Nouns (645 languages)
- Action Nominal Constructions (460 languages)
- Noun Phrase Conjunction (655 languages)
- Nominal and Verbal Conjunction (641 languages)
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Verbal Categories
- Perfective/Imperfective Aspect (841 languages)
- The Past Tense (899 languages)
- The Future Tense (895 languages)
- The Perfect (794 languages)
- Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes (832 languages)
- The Morphological Imperative (717 languages)
- The Prohibitive (668 languages)
- Imperative-Hortative Systems (488 languages)
- The Optative (676 languages)
- Situational Possibility (539 languages)
- Epistemic Possibility (523 languages)
- Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking (451 languages)
- Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality (614 languages)
- Coding of Evidentiality (653 languages)
- Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect (608 languages)
- Verbal Number and Suppletion (609 languages)
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Word Order
- Order of Subject, Object and Verb (1002 languages)
- Order of Subject and Verb (962 languages)
- Order of Object and Verb (955 languages)
- Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb (753 languages)
- Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (837 languages)
- Order of Genitive and Noun (894 languages)
- Order of Adjective and Noun (928 languages)
- Order of Demonstrative and Noun (823 languages)
- Order of Numeral and Noun (846 languages)
- Order of Relative Clause and Noun (751 languages)
- Order of Degree Word and Adjective (594 languages)
- Position of Polar Question Particles (721 languages)
- Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions (667 languages)
- Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause (568 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (675 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun (655 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun (695 languages)
- Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb (626 languages)
- Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb (578 languages)
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Simple Clauses
- Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases (745 languages)
- Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns (705 languages)
- Alignment of Verbal Person Marking (679 languages)
- Expression of Pronominal Subjects (681 languages)
- Verbal Person Marking (754 languages)
- Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking (676 languages)
- Order of Person Markers on the Verb (666 languages)
- Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' (604 languages)
- Reciprocal Constructions (512 languages)
- Passive Constructions (691 languages)
- Antipassive Constructions (596 languages)
- Applicative Constructions (503 languages)
- Periphrastic Causative Constructions (301 languages)
- Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions (441 languages)
- Negative Morphemes (705 languages)
- Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation (520 languages)
- Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation (408 languages)
- Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation (366 languages)
- Polar Questions (675 languages)
- Predicative Possession (496 languages)
- Predicative Adjectives (555 languages)
- Nominal and Locational Predication (518 languages)
- Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals (597 languages)
- Comparative Constructions (439 languages)
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Complex Sentences
- Relativization on Subjects (533 languages)
- Relativization on Obliques (489 languages)
- 'Want' Complement Subjects (453 languages)
- Purpose Clauses (399 languages)
- 'When' Clauses (411 languages)
- Reason Clauses (402 languages)
- Utterance Complement Clauses (371 languages)
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Lexicon
- Hand and Arm (743 languages)
- Finger and Hand (723 languages)
- Numeral Bases (814 languages)
- Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories (383 languages)
- Number of Basic Colour Categories (365 languages)
- Green and Blue (584 languages)
- Red and Yellow (584 languages)
- M-T Pronouns (626 languages)
- N-M Pronouns (620 languages)
- Tea (540 languages)
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Sign Languages
- Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages (79 languages)
- Question Particles in Sign Languages (83 languages)
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Other
- Writing Systems (715 languages)
- Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks (416 languages)
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Conlang-specific
- Conlang type (892 languages)
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