Features for Proto-Besokian

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Missing /p/
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Simple
Tone WALS Simple tone system
Fixed Stress Locations WALS Initial

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Ablaut/concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 0-1 category per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS No marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Other
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Inconsistent or other
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Little affixation
Case Syncretism WALS No case marking

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS No definite or indefinite article
Number of Cases WALS No morphological case-marking

Nominal Syntax

Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Moderately differentiated in other ways

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS No past tense
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS No tense-aspect inflection
The Morphological Imperative WALS No second-person imperatives
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative absent

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS VOS
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Noun-Adjective

Lexicon

Numeral Bases WALS Decimal

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphasyllabic

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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