Occurence of Noun Incorporation

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Occurence of Noun Incorporation

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Out of the languages in the WALS 100 language sample, how many have productive noun incorporation of the Type 3 or Type 4 kind? I'm interested in a rough percentage of how common this type of NI is. (As defined in Mithun 1984.) From my own knowledge, I count 5:

Wichita
Kiowa
Oneida
Mapudungun
Chukchi

There there any others that I have missed?
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