Salishan Languages - Family Features

Family Features

  • post-velar harmony (more areal)
  • presence of syllables without vowels
  • grammatical reduplication
  • nonconcatenation (infixes, metathesis, glottalization)
  • tenselessness
  • nounlessness (controversial)

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