Features for Sihaku

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Small 
/  n  /
/p t k/
/f s h/
/  r  /
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4) 
/i a u/
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Moderately low

2.7

Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Other 
no voiced plosives
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS No laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Simple 
CV(n)
Tone WALS Simple tone system 
binary pitch accent (high or no-accent) on one syllable per word
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Lexical stress
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS None

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Monoexponential case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 4-5 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Dependent-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strong prefixing
Reduplication WALS Productive full and partial reduplication

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Three 
masculine, feminine, neuter
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Sex-based 
masculine = males + "manly" objects
feminine = females + "womanly" objects
neuter = sexless stuff + things that don't fit
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic and formal
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural prefix 
fa-
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person stem + nominal plural affix
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS Possessive prefixes

Word Order

Order of Subject and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Decimal
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 6
Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS 11
Green and Blue WALS Green vs. 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 Alphasyllabic 
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Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks WALS Other or none

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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