rarum 5: a sizable inventory of basic smell terms, i.e., one with more than two or three items Where found Des(s)ana (Tucanoan, Andean-Equatorial); Totonaca (Totonacan,…
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rarum 5: a sizable inventory of basic smell terms, i.e., one with more than two or three items Where found Des(s)ana (Tucanoan, Andean-Equatorial); Totonaca (Totonacan,…
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rarum 6: labial flap /vb/ (See Image) Where found over 60 languages in Africa (Afroasiatic: Chadic; Niger-Congo: esp. Adamawa-Ubangi, also Benue-Congo; Nilo-Saharan: Central Sudanic) and…
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rarum 7: bilabial trill /è/,(i) prenasalized bilabial stop with trilled release, or(ii) trilled fricated vowel as syllabic variant of labial fricative Where found (i) Nias…
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rarum 21: word-stress on postinitial syllable (or mora) Where found less than 3% of languages, including Araucanian and a few Uto-Aztecan languages (though reconstructed for…
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rarum 14: lack of bilabial nasal and possibly bilabial stops Where found Iroquois; Tlingit (Na-Dene) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords bilabial, nasal, stops Type…
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rarum 60: contrast in personal pronouns for moyety, kin class, and generation level membership Where found Adnyamadhanha and other Australian lgs Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain…
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rarum 120: interrogative pro verbs Where found Southern Paiute (Uto-Aztecan); Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan); Mandarin (Chinese, Sino-Tibetan); Yankunytjatjara (aka Western Desert (PN), Kayardild ((non?) PN), and many…
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rarum 65: inclusive/exclusive contrast for 2nd person (‘you several, non-SAPs included/excluded’) Where found SE Ambrym (Austronesian), Port Sandwich (Austronesian) (?); Yokuts (Yokutsan); Ojibwe, Cree, Fox,…
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rarum 123: the verb ‘to eat’ grammaticalized as middle or auto-benefactive marker (‘to do something for oneself, on one’s own’), possibly via a meaning ‘to…
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rarum 66: dual with 1st person exclusive but not with 1st person inclusive Where found Yagua (Ge-Pano-Carib); Tübatulabal (Uto-Aztecan) (?); Savosavo (East Papuan) (?); Ngankikurrungkurr…