Features for Ngaraxth Crixth v7

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Large (7-14) 
Some vowel qualities change slightly when creaky voice is added.
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Other 
Missing /b/.
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Complex 
Only CC coda is -rþ /ɹθ/.
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere 
Stress is dependent on (1) the coda of the final syllable and (2) whether certain syllables have creaky voice. In particular, syllables with creaky-voiced vowels are chosen only if a word has only creaky-voiced syllables. If the word ends with a vowel, <s> or a nasal, then the stress is on the first choice among [penultimate, antepenultimate, ultimate, 4th-to-last, ... first]. Otherwise, the stress is on the first choice among all syllables from end to start.
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Combined
Rhythm Types WALS Undetermined
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Pharyngeals and 'th'

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + number
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 8-9 categories per word 
person and number of both subject and object, tense, aspect, voice (active/causative), inchoative/terminative
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Double marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Double marking 
in the possessive construction, the possessor receives the clitic <=(e)þ> ane the possessee receives <=(a)c>
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Inconsistent or other 
mostly dependent-marking but some places have double-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strongly suffixing
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS Core and non-core
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Not syncretic 
when considering person and number alone; tense syncretises 1PL-PRES and 3SG-PAST

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three 
celestial, terrestrial and human. Human vs. non-human is semantic; celestial vs. terrestrial is formal.
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic and formal
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem
The Associative Plural WALS No associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Inclusive/exclusive 
Both the plural form of the 1st person pronoun (defective and doesn't distinguish clusivity) and the special pronouns <ceva> and <cela> (have all forms, distinguish clusivity) exist.
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Two-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Different stem
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No gender distinctions
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS No politeness distinction 
Never liked them.
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Special
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS Differentiated 
Intensifiers (or at least the closest thing there is) are formed with <cem> + possessive affix; reflexive pronoun is <cem> without the affix.
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS Pronouns only 
Person marking happens only on adpositions governing a nominative, accusative, dative or genitive argument.
Number of Cases WALS 10 or more cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Subtractive-quantitatively asymmetrical 
The first-, second- and third-person personal pronouns have no nominative, accusative, dative or genitive forms.
Position of Case Affixes WALS Mixed morphological case 
Mostly case suffixes, but circumfixes are used for instrumental-comitative and abessive cases for OS-, ON-, OR- and EL- nouns, and dual and plural genitives are usually eclipsed.
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Identity
Ordinal Numerals WALS Various 
Ordinal numbers start from zero. The first four ordinals are special and marked for case, but those afterwards are just the short-form numerals before the noun.
Distributive Numerals WALS No distributive numerals
Numeral Classifiers WALS Obligatory 
Obligatory for short-form numerals, except with special nouns. Not used with long-form numerals.
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers WALS Formally different
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS Possessive suffixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Possessive Classification WALS No possessive classification
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by suffix
Action Nominal Constructions WALS Mixed 
Possessive-accusative when S is a pronoun and sentential otherwise.
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' different from 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS Differentiation

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking 
Expressed with eclipsis; hence, this distinction is not made for some verbs (at least until a prefix such as the causative <do-> or the inchoative <es-> comes into play).
The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative WALS No second-person imperatives 
Imperatives are formed using the present-tense form with the head particle <le>.
The Prohibitive WALS Normal imperative + normal negative 
Technically, ŋarâþ crîþ has no single negative marker, but you'd usually hear <garit> 'refrain from' in this case.
Imperative-Hortative Systems WALS Maximal system
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent
Situational Possibility WALS Verbal constructions
Epistemic Possibility WALS Verbal constructions
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking WALS No overlap
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality WALS No grammatical evidentials
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS None
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS None

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Relative clause-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Final subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS OV and AdjN
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb WALS VNeg
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOVNeg

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking WALS Accusative
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking WALS Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A precedes P
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Secondary-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions WALS Identical to reflexive
Passive Constructions WALS Absent
Antipassive Constructions WALS No antipassive
Applicative Constructions WALS Benefactive and other; both bases
Periphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Both 
Is 'neither' an option? (At least, I've yet to have found one.)
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes WALS Negative auxiliary verb 
Technically, there's no single negative marker. There are a number of suppletive negatives, as well as a variety of negative verbs that tell you how an action didn't happen.
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Asymmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS A/Fin
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation WALS Negative existential construction 
There are affirmative indefinite pronouns ('all', 'some') but no negative ones. Where one would otherwise use a negative indefinite pronoun, ŋarâþ crîþ uses affirmative indefinite pronouns plus the appropriate negative construction (e.g. 'no one went' -> 'everyone refrained from going').
Polar Questions WALS Question particle
Predicative Possession WALS Locational
Predicative Adjectives WALS Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication WALS Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Possible
Comparative Constructions WALS Exceed

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects WALS Gap
Relativization on Obliques WALS Gap
'Want' Complement Subjects WALS Both construction types exist
Purpose Clauses WALS Deranked
'When' Clauses WALS Deranked
Reason Clauses WALS Balanced/deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses WALS Balanced

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Other base
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 5
Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS 4.5-5.5
Green and Blue WALS Green/blue
Red and Yellow WALS Red vs. yellow
M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns
Tea WALS Others

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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