Feature statistics

Most popular conlang features

Absence of Common Consonants: All present 943 languages 72.9%
Vowel Nasalization: Contrast absent 921 languages 71.2%
Glottalized Consonants: No glottalized consonants 865 languages 66.8%
Tone: No tones 856 languages 66.2%
Uvular Consonants: None 758 languages 58.6%
Front Rounded Vowels: None 753 languages 58.2%
Lateral Consonants: /l/, no obstruent laterals 703 languages 54.3%
Conlang type: Artlang 691 languages 53.4%
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems: None missing in /p t k b d g/ 653 languages 50.5%
Finger and Hand: Different 615 languages 47.5%
Presence of Uncommon Consonants: None 598 languages 46.2%
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives: In both plosives and fricatives 596 languages 46.1%
Hand and Arm: Different 563 languages 43.5%
Order of Subject and Verb: SV 530 languages 41.0%
Fixed Stress Locations: No fixed stress 518 languages 40.0%
Obligatory Possessive Inflection: Absent 517 languages 40.0%
The Velar Nasal: No velar nasal 516 languages 39.9%
Syllable Structure: Moderately complex 510 languages 39.4%
Consonant-Vowel Ratio: Average 506 languages 39.1%
Red and Yellow: Red vs. yellow 505 languages 39.0%

Most common natlang features

Front Rounded Vowels: None 115 languages 90.6%
Absence of Common Consonants: All present 112 languages 88.2%
The Optative: Inflectional optative absent 109 languages 85.8%
Verbal Number and Suppletion: None 101 languages 79.5%
Antipassive Constructions: No antipassive 101 languages 79.5%
Order of Subject and Verb: SV 99 languages 78.0%
Uvular Consonants: None 99 languages 78.0%
Presence of Uncommon Consonants: None 98 languages 77.2%
N-M Pronouns: No N-M pronouns 97 languages 76.4%
Glottalized Consonants: No glottalized consonants 96 languages 75.6%
Obligatory Possessive Inflection: Absent 96 languages 75.6%
M-T Pronouns: No M-T pronouns 91 languages 71.7%
Vowel Nasalization: Contrast absent 89 languages 70.1%
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions: Morphological but no compound 89 languages 70.1%
Tone: No tones 85 languages 66.9%
Lateral Consonants: /l/, no obstruent laterals 83 languages 65.4%
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives: Exclusively concatenative 82 languages 64.6%
Polar Questions: Question particle 80 languages 63.0%
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns: No inclusive/exclusive 78 languages 61.4%
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns: No gender distinctions 77 languages 60.6%

Unused values for features (1)

Conlangs with no features