Typological Features Template
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| Feature | Description |
| Phonological Features | The phonological inventory of [your language] |
| Vowel inventory | description of the vowels of [your language] |
| Vowel harmony | rule based assimilations involving vowels in [your language] |
| Consonantse | description of the consonants of [your language] |
| Tone | indicate if [your language] is a tone language and which tones are used; does [your language] have lexical tone? |
| Syllable Structure | Indicate the basic syllable structures for [your language] |
| Morpho-syntactic Features | a description of some of the basic morpho-syntactic parameters of [your language] |
| morphological classification (1) | [your language] could be an isolating language (not (or nearly not) making use of morphology, agglutinative, such as the Bantu languages of Africa, or synthetic such as the Saami languages of Scandinavia, or even polysynthetic such as Greenlandic. |
| morphological classification (2) | linguists have distinguished between head- and dependent-marking languages. Semitic languages are head marking languages; it is the head of the noun phrases that needs to have a special form when followed by a dependent noun; in the Germanic languages it is the head of the verb phrase that expresses person number features of its subject. Grammatical dependencies on the other hand are in some of the Germanic languages expressed on the dependent noun phrases in form of case. [Your language] might be both, head- and dependent-marking depending on the category of speech and or the type of feature expressed. |