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,…
rarum 5
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rarum 6
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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…
rarum 7
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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…
rarum 14
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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 30: case distinction exclusively by tone Where found Eastern (or Para-)Nilotic (Nilo-Saharan); (some) Cushitic, (some) Omotic (?) (Afroasiatic); (some) Bantu, Bantoid, Kwa (Niger-Congo); Burmese…
rarum 93
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rarum 93: two object arguments in one construction showing the same syntactic and morphological behaviour as the single object of a primary transitive verb (lgs…
rarum 33
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rarum 33: negation expressed negatively, by omission of material present in affirmative clause (marked realis vs. unmarked irrealis mood inflection) Where found Tamil, Kannada, Toda,…
rarum 95
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rarum 95: passive constructions, with subject demoted, corresponding to active ones containing a reflexive pronoun (or reflexive marker) as a direct or indirect object, with…
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rarum 39: nominative (marking intransitive and transitive subject) as the morphologically marked case vis-à-vis (zero-marked) accusative (marking direct object), for all nouns or for some…