small consonant inventory
average vowel inventory
moderately high C-V ratio
Voicing contrast in plosives alone
Some common consonants missing, but not /p/ or /g/
No uvulars
Glottalized resonants only
No laterals
No velar nasal
Vowel nasalisation
No high front vowels
Moderately complex syllable structure
Simple tone system
Penultimate fixed stress
Trochaic rhythm
No fricatives
No uncommon consonants
Exclusively concatenative