Utterance Complement Clauses
Complex sentences · one world map for each value
WALS codes 143 languages for this feature. The most frequent value, “Balanced”, covers 114 of them (80%); the least frequent, “Deranked”, covers 11.
That value is most frequent in Papunesia (100% of the 19 languages coded there) and least frequent in Eurasia (65% of 48).
All 13 Austronesian languages coded have “Balanced”.
Afro-Asiatic is the most divided, its largest group reaching only 5 of 8.
Balanced114 languages · 80%
Balanced/deranked18 languages · 13%
Deranked11 languages · 8%
One map per value; each dot is a language WALS codes with that value.
By macro-area
| Value | Africa | Eurasia | Papunesia | Australia | North America | South America |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced | 25 | 31 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 16 |
| Balanced/deranked | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Deranked | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| All values | 29 | 48 | 19 | 10 | 17 | 20 |
Inside the largest families
| Family | Coded | Most frequent value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austronesian | 13 | Balanced | 100% |
| Indo-European | 12 | Balanced | 75% |
| Niger-Congo | 11 | Balanced | 91% |
| Afro-Asiatic | 8 | Balanced | 62% |