Table 7. The shared features sorted by their agreed stabilities from the most stable to the most unstable.

Rank	ID	Name	Abbr. name	PC1	PC1*	PC2	PC3	PC4
1	18	Absence of Common Consonants	AbsComC	4.41	5.16	−1.01	0.31	0.32
2	11	Front Rounded Vowels	FrRoundV	3.48	NA	−3.34	1.16	1.09
3	136	M-T Pronouns	MTPron	3.28	NA	0.35	−3.51	1.15
4	86	Order of Genitive and Noun	GenN	3.28	4.17	2.30	0.46	0.57
5	83	Order of Object and Verb	OV	3.21	3.75	2.97	1.97	1.33
6	85	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	AdposNP	2.94	3.63	2.77	1.69	0.84
7	73	The Optative	Optative	2.81	2.70	−1.41	0.63	−1.09
8	80	Verbal Number and Suppletion	VnumSupp	2.61	NA	0.58	−5.61	1.94
9	82	Order of Subject and Verb	SV	2.35	2.59	−0.10	0.66	0.83
10	119	Nominal and Locational Predication	NomLocPred	2.25	3.21	0.98	−0.51	−1.49
11	10	Vowel Nasalization	VowelN	2.14	2.94	−0.52	−0.49	−0.94
12	6	Uvular Consonants	UvulC	1.94	1.74	−1.09	0.77	−0.37
13	107	Passive Constructions	PassiveC	1.87	2.01	−1.61	0.10	0.50
14	89	Order of Numeral and Noun	NumN	1.45	2.12	0.71	0.04	−0.44
15	118	Predicative Adjectives	PredAdj	1.38	2.47	1.87	−0.93	−1.73
16	9	The Velar Nasal	VelarN	1.37	1.58	−0.03	0.35	−0.65
17	7	Glottalized Consonants	GlotC	1.36	1.70	−0.43	0.45	0.16
18	87	Order of Adjective and Noun	AdjN	1.31	1.70	0.61	0.38	−0.06
19	13	Tone	Tone	1.22	1.24	−0.88	0.69	−0.60
20	44	Gender Dist. in Indep. Personal Pronouns	GenDIPersP	1.16	1.74	0.27	0.01	−0.04
21	120	Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	ZeroCopPredNom	0.60	0.41	−0.68	0.01	−0.61
22	30	Number of Genders	NoGen	0.59	1.46	1.76	−0.08	−1.30
23	57	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	PosProPAff	0.58	1.31	1.44	−0.90	−0.76
24	93	Pos. of Inter. Phrases in Content Questions	IntPhCQ	0.55	0.86	0.07	−0.10	−0.39
25	58	Obligatory Possessive Inflection	OlbPosInfl	0.39	NA	−2.87	−0.16	1.52
26	55	Numeral Classifiers	NumClas	0.30	0.18	−0.85	−0.37	−1.58
27	42	Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	PadDem	0.16	0.30	−0.14	−0.56	−1.83
28	77	Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	SemDistEv	−0.02	−0.02	0.43	0.90	1.19
29	66	The Past Tense	PastTense	−0.02	0.39	1.41	0.09	−0.52
30	2	Vowel Quality Inventories	Vowel	−0.07	−0.11	−0.60	0.27	0.21
31	79	Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect	SuppTAsp	−0.12	0.01	−0.22	0.23	−1.24
32	65	Perfective/Imperfective Aspect	PerfImpAsp	−0.12	−0.25	−0.67	0.44	−0.77
33	8	Lateral Consonants	LatC	−0.12	0.09	−0.56	0.09	0.22
34	67	The Future Tense	FutTense	−0.15	−0.31	−0.28	0.61	0.06
35	108	Antipassive Constructions	AntipassiveC	−0.21	−0.30	−1.42	0.23	−0.04
36	27	Reduplication	Redup	−0.37	−0.41	−0.78	−0.12	−1.32
37	129	Hand and Arm	HandArm	−0.40	−0.64	−0.83	−0.17	−1.77
38	91	Order of Degree Word and Adjective	DegWAdj	−0.48	−0.42	−0.07	−0.13	−0.61
39	70	The Morphological Imperative	MorphImp	−0.86	−0.70	0.28	0.13	0.80
40	113	Symm. and Asymmetric Standard Negation	SymAsymStNeg	−0.92	−0.91	−0.43	0.41	1.01
41	102	Verbal Person Marking	VpersM	−0.93	−1.08	0.19	1.20	1.48
42	12	Syllable Structure	SylStr	−0.98	−1.23	−0.94	0.41	0.14
43	126	When’ Clauses	WhenC	−0.98	−0.96	0.47	0.08	−0.29
44	104	Order of Person Markers on the Verb	PersMV	−0.99	−0.84	0.67	0.18	0.39
45	59	Possessive Classification	PosClas	−1.03	−0.84	−0.91	−0.46	1.31
46	45	Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns	PolitDPron	−1.20	−1.62	−0.99	0.64	0.22
47	64	Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	NomVConj	−1.36	−1.61	−0.73	0.08	−0.35
48	50	Asymmetrical Case−Marking	AsymCaseM	−1.49	−1.20	1.68	0.77	0.38
49	109	Applicative Constructions	ApplicativeC	−1.67	−1.50	0.01	−0.17	−0.32
50	4	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	VoicPF	−1.69	−1.69	0.02	0.37	0.84
51	41	Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	DistCDem	−1.79	−1.81	−1.12	−0.72	−0.17
52	68	The Perfect	Perfect	−1.79	−1.99	−0.16	0.75	0.65
53	23	Locus of Marking in the Clause	LmarkC	−2.33	−2.20	0.98	0.33	0.63
54	76	Overlap b/w Sit. and Epistemic Modal Mark.	OvSitEpi	−2.39	−2.72	−0.79	0.03	0.65
55	24	Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	LmarkPNP	−2.40	−2.40	0.21	0.24	0.31
56	92	Position of Polar Question Particles	PolQPart	−2.54	−2.53	0.19	−0.67	−0.12
57	49	Number of Cases	Ncases	−2.68	−2.37	2.15	0.52	0.71
58	37	Definite Articles	DefArt	−3.15	−3.18	0.08	−0.56	0.46
59	53	Ordinal Numerals	OrdNum	−3.26	−3.08	1.09	−0.50	−0.62
60	1	Consonant Inventories	Cons	−3.36	−3.32	−0.14	−0.62	0.72
61	38	Indefinite Articles	IndefArt	−3.44	−3.49	0.13	−0.46	0.38
62	43	Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	P3PrDem	−3.70	−3.75	−0.11	−0.85	−0.99

The Rank represents the feature’s rank from the most “stable” (top) to the most “unstable” (bottom), the ID is the feature’s numeric identifier in WALS [39], Name is the feature’s full name while Abbr. name is the abbreviated name, and and the feature’s score on the first principal component representing the agreement between all methods and excluding outliers, respectively; – are the loadings on principal components 2, 3 and 4 using all shared features. See text for details.