Editing Svan language (section)

==Features==

===Familial features===
Like all languages of the Caucasian language family, Svan has a large number of consonants. It has agreement between subject and object, and a [[split ergativity|split-ergative]] [[Morphosyntactic alignment|morphosyntactic system]]. Verbs are marked for [[grammatical aspect|aspect]], [[evidentiality]] and [[Kartvelian languages#Verb|"version"]].

===Distinguishing features===
Svan retains the [[voiceless uvular plosive|voiceless aspirated uvular plosive]], {{IPA|/qʰ/}}, and the glides {{IPA|/w/}} and {{IPA|/j/}}. It has a larger vowel inventory than Georgian; the Upper Bal dialect of Svan has the most vowels of any South-Caucasian language, having both long and short versions of {{IPA|/a ɛ i ɔ u æ ø y/}} plus {{IPA|/ə eː/}}, a total of 18 vowels (Georgian, by contrast, has just five).

Its morphology is less regular than that of the other three sister languages, and there are notable differences in [[grammatical conjugation|conjugation]].