infrequentale (family possession) 136: verbs agreeing with subjects in person and number in non-past tenses, but in gender and number in the past tense Where…
Month: May 2020
rarissimum 135
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rarissimum 135: a definite article only present in plural, but not in singular Where found Tok Pisin (English-based Pacific creole) Domain syntax Subdomain pronouns, articles…
nonesuch 134
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nonesuch 134: dual forms of personal pronouns (all three persons) as the basic forms from which both singular and plural are formed by suffixation Where…
rarissimum (or infrequentale?) 133: ‘eight’ as regular base for a numeral system Where found Pamean lgs, esp. Northern Pame (Otomanguean) Domain morphology: word formation Subdomain…
nonesuch 132
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nonesuch 132: a phoneme inventory with almost 40 times as many consonants as vowels Where found Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords…
rarum (or infrequentale?) 131: a phoneme inventory with more vowels than consonants (10 : 8) Where found Hawaiian, and probably other Polynesian lgs (Austronesian) Domain…
rarum 130
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rarum 130: a basic colour term for undifferentiated YELLOW-GREEN-BLUE, as a “catch-everything-else” category in addition to BLACK, WHITE, and RED Where found Arrernte (PN, Australian);…
nonesuch 129
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nonesuch 129: eight basic colour terms, of which no less than four are for REDs: shocking pink, burgundy, reddish brown, and wine red Where found…
rarissimum 128
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rarissimum 128: as many as five phonological tone levels, plus two falling and one rising contour tone Where found Black Miao (of Ch’ing Chiang Miao…
nonesuch 127
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nonesuch 127: word-stress sensitive to consonant voicing (such sensitivity to phonation being more characteristic of tone than of stress) Where found Pirahã (Mura-Pirahã, Macro-Chibchan) Domain…