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Consonant Inventories
Vowel Quality Inventories
Consonant-Vowel Ratio
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
Uvular Consonants
Glottalized Consonants
Lateral Consonants
The Velar Nasal
Vowel Nasalization
Front Rounded Vowels
Syllable Structure
Tone
Fixed Stress Locations
Weight-Sensitive Stress
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
Rhythm Types
Absence of Common Consonants
Presence of Uncommon Consonants
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb
Locus of Marking in the Clause
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
Reduplication
Case Syncretism
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking
Number of Genders
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
Systems of Gender Assignment
Coding of Nominal Plurality
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
The Associative Plural
Definite Articles
Indefinite Articles
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
Person Marking on Adpositions
Number of Cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking
Position of Case Affixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals
Ordinal Numerals
Distributive Numerals
Numeral Classifiers
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
Obligatory Possessive Inflection
Possessive Classification
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses
Adjectives without Nouns
Action Nominal Constructions
Noun Phrase Conjunction
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
The Past Tense
The Future Tense
The Perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
The Morphological Imperative
The Prohibitive
Imperative-Hortative Systems
The Optative
Situational Possibility
Epistemic Possibility
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
Coding of Evidentiality
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
Verbal Number and Suppletion
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
Order of Subject and Verb
Order of Object and Verb
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
Order of Genitive and Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
Expression of Pronominal Subjects
Verbal Person Marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
Reciprocal Constructions
Passive Constructions
Antipassive Constructions
Applicative Constructions
Periphrastic Causative Constructions
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
Negative Morphemes
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
Polar Questions
Predicative Possession
Predicative Adjectives
Nominal and Locational Predication
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
Comparative Constructions
Relativization on Subjects
Relativization on Obliques
'Want' Complement Subjects
Purpose Clauses
'When' Clauses
Reason Clauses
Utterance Complement Clauses
Hand and Arm
Finger and Hand
Numeral Bases
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories
Number of Basic Colour Categories
Green and Blue
Red and Yellow
M-T Pronouns
N-M Pronouns
Tea
Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages
Question Particles in Sign Languages
Writing Systems
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb
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Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb
WALS
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WALS
Values:
Conlangs:
NegSVO
(7 languages)
SNegVO
(106 languages)
SVNegO
(27 languages)
SVONeg
(6 languages)
NegSOV
(8 languages)
SNegOV
(3 languages)
SONegV
(50 languages)
SOVNeg
(41 languages)
NegVSO
(47 languages)
VSNegO
(1 language)
VSONeg
(2 languages)
NegVOS
(6 languages)
ONegVS
(1 language)
OVNegS
(7 languages)
OSVNeg
(1 language)
More than one position
(42 languages)
OptSingleNeg
(1 language)
ObligDoubleNeg
(7 languages)
OptDoubleNeg
(8 languages)
MorphNeg
(53 languages)
Other
(32 languages)
Natlangs:
NegSVO
(1 language)
SNegVO
(22 languages)
SVNegO
(0 languages)
SVONeg
(3 languages)
NegSOV
(0 languages)
SNegOV
(3 languages)
SONegV
(9 languages)
SOVNeg
(8 languages)
NegVSO
(5 languages)
VSNegO
(0 languages)
VSONeg
(0 languages)
NegVOS
(3 languages)
ONegVS
(1 language)
OVNegS
(0 languages)
OSVNeg
(0 languages)
More than one position
(12 languages)
OptSingleNeg
(0 languages)
ObligDoubleNeg
(10 languages)
OptDoubleNeg
(8 languages)
MorphNeg
(27 languages)
Other
(9 languages)
Pygal
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0
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NegS…
NegSVO
SNeg…
SNegVO
SVNe…
SVNegO
SVON…
SVONeg
NegS…
NegSOV
SNeg…
SNegOV
SONe…
SONegV
SOVN…
SOVNeg
NegV…
NegVSO
VSNe…
VSNegO
VSON…
VSONeg
NegV…
NegVOS
ONeg…
ONegVS
OVNe…
OVNegS
OSVN…
OSVNeg
More…
More than one position
OptS…
OptSingleNeg
Obli…
ObligDoubleNeg
OptD…
OptDoubleNeg
Morp…
MorphNeg
Other
7
23.461538461538463
469.7650580551524
NegSVO
106
56.978021978021985
247.5
SNegVO
27
90.49450549450549
424.8630261248186
SVNegO
6
124.010989010989
472.0101596516691
SVONeg
8
157.5274725274725
467.5199564586357
NegSOV
3
191.04395604395606
478.74546444121916
SNegOV
50
224.56043956043956
373.22568940493466
SONegV
41
258.07692307692304
393.4316037735849
SOVNeg
47
291.59340659340666
379.9609941944848
NegVSO
1
325.1098901098901
483.23566763425254
VSNegO
2
358.6263736263736
480.99056603773585
VSONeg
6
392.1428571428572
472.0101596516691
NegVOS
1
425.65934065934067
483.23566763425254
ONegVS
7
459.1758241758242
469.7650580551524
OVNegS
1
492.6923076923077
483.23566763425254
OSVNeg
42
526.2087912087911
391.18650217706823
More than one position
1
559.7252747252746
483.23566763425254
OptSingleNeg
7
593.2417582417581
469.7650580551524
ObligDoubleNeg
8
626.7582417582418
467.5199564586357
OptDoubleNeg
53
660.2747252747253
366.49038461538464
MorphNeg
32
693.7912087912086
413.63751814223514
Other
1
38.20879120879121
483.23566763425254
NegSVO
22
71.72527472527473
436.08853410740204
SNegVO
0
105.24175824175823
485.4807692307692
SVNegO
3
138.75824175824172
478.74546444121916
SVONeg
0
172.27472527472526
485.4807692307692
NegSOV
3
205.79120879120882
478.74546444121916
SNegOV
9
239.30769230769232
465.274854862119
SONegV
8
272.8241758241758
467.5199564586357
SOVNeg
5
306.3406593406594
474.2552612481858
NegVSO
0
339.85714285714283
485.4807692307692
VSNegO
0
373.37362637362634
485.4807692307692
VSONeg
3
406.89010989010995
478.74546444121916
NegVOS
1
440.4065934065934
483.23566763425254
ONegVS
0
473.9230769230769
485.4807692307692
OVNegS
0
507.4395604395604
485.4807692307692
OSVNeg
12
540.9560439560439
458.53955007256894
More than one position
0
574.4725274725274
485.4807692307692
OptSingleNeg
10
607.9890109890109
463.0297532656023
ObligDoubleNeg
8
641.5054945054945
467.5199564586357
OptDoubleNeg
27
675.021978021978
424.8630261248186
MorphNeg
9
708.5384615384614
465.274854862119
Other
Conlang
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