1. Family: Muskogean
  2. Genus: Muskogean

Alabama

WALS coordinates: 32° 19′ 48.00″ N, 87° 25′ 12.00″ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Alabama
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Moderately small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Nominal Syntax
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with'
      Verbal Categories
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Simple Clauses
      Predicative Possession Locational
      Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different
      Numeral Bases Decimal
      Tea Others