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adjective allophone Amerind languages archiphoneme Bantu languages basic allophone cardinal category of number Chiricahua cited classical Arabic collateral consanguineal considered consonants corresponding count defectivation descending diachronic distinction dual English environment evidence example facultative expression FaFa FaMo father female feminine Frequency data gender glottalized glottalized consonants grammatical categories Hausa hierarchy hypotheses indicative inflectional categories instances J. H. Greenberg Jakobson kin types kinship terminologies languages Latin lexemic lexical lineal linguistic long vowels Maidu male marked and unmarked marked character marked feature masculine MoFa MoMo morpheme mother mother's brother nasal vowels non-glottalized non-nasal noun occurs opposition oral vowels overt person singular phonemes phonology plural present reference relative Russian Sanskrit second ascending second person self-reciprocal semantic separate terms short vowels single Spanish speaker subjunctive suffix superlative syncretization TABLE text frequency third person typologies universals unmarked category unmarked in relation unmarked member unmarked status unvoiced Vedic Sanskrit verb zero expression