These language are unified by vocabulary, word-order, grammatical cases, grammatical genders, clusivity, typology, phonology, and morphosyntactic alignment.
There are no tones. Consonants five places of articulation and four manners for obstruents. Vowels are the five-vowel system, but all available in short and long.
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Anthropology
The presence of verbs that follow their objects rather than precede them. When subjects are present, the will generally precede the objects.
The placing in object position of goals of verbs of motion, predicate nominals and adjectives, adverbial complements, and infinitival complements of catenatives.
The use of verbal auxiliaries that follow rather than precede the main verb with which they are used
The marking of syntactic functions of nominal elements by means of postpositions, as opposed to prepositions
Patterns of word order in which adjectives, genitive phrases, demonstratives, and numerals generally precede the noun they modify
Qualifiers precede adjectives
Causative verbs
conjunctive particles
explicator compound verbs
dative constructions
no "to have"
no articles
case
clusivity
two genders
Phonology
No tone
Five places of articulation and four manners for obstruents
Labial
Dental
Retroflex
Palatal
Velar
Nasal
/m/ 𑀫
/n/ 𑀦
/ɳ/ 𑀡
/ɲ/ 𑀜
/ŋ/ 𑀗
Unvoiced
/p/ 𑀧
/t/ 𑀢
/ʈ/ 𑀝
/c/ 𑀘
/k/ 𑀓
Voiced
/b/ 𑀩
/d/ 𑀤
/ɖ/ 𑀟
/ɟ/ 𑀚
/g/ 𑀕
Aspirated
/pʰ/ 𑀨
/tʰ/ 𑀣
/ʈʰ/ 𑀞
/cʰ/ 𑀙
/kʰ/ 𑀔
Breathy
/bʰ/ 𑀪
/dʰ/ 𑀥
/ɖʰ/ 𑀠
/ɟʰ/ 𑀛
/gʰ/ 𑀖
Fricative
/v/ 𑀯
/s/ 𑀲
/ʂ/ 𑀱
/ɕ/ 𑀰
/h/ 𑀳
Lateral
/l/ 𑀮
/ɭ/ 𑀴
Approximant
/r/ 𑀭
/ɻ/ 𑀶
/j/ 𑀬
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