Guide:Features
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Small list of various features and examples of natlangs/conlangs that use them
Phonological
Consonants
Palatalised
Labialised
Geminated
Aspirated
Pre-nasalised
Syllabic
Ejective
Clicks
Vowels
Long
Nasalised
Tonal
Grammatical
Grammatical features are features that exist within a language and has been standarized into a grammatical feature which must be stated for the sentence to be grammatical and proper in the speakers ears, if it is optional or not standard it doesn't classify as grammatical.
Morphosyntactic alignment
Nominative-accusative
Ergative-absolutive
Tripartite
Fluid
Direct
Trigger
Cases
Grammatical
Locational
Motional to
Motional from
Motional Via
Relational
Semantical
Relational
State
Definiteness
Article
Affixation
None
Aspects
Perfective and imperfective
Inceptive, continuative and terminative
Gnomic
Others
Tenses
None
Past and non-past
Past, present and future
Past, recent past, present and future
Past, recent past, present, near future and future
Past, present, near future and distant future
Word order
None
Subject-object-verb
Subject-verb-object
Verb-subject-object
Object-subject-verb
Object-verb-subject
Verb-object-subject
Number
If its anywhere but "none" singular is always present as well and if it is anywhere but "plural" the plural marker is also always present as well.
None
Plural
Paucal
Dual
Trial
Possession
Alienable/inalienable
Morphological
Morphological features are features that are directly marked and indicated onto the verb, noun or adjective