Abaza

WALS coordinates: 44° N, 42° E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Abaza
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Abazin
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Verbal Categories
    The Optative Inflectional optative present
    Simple Clauses
    Applicative Constructions Benefactive and other; both bases
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Lexicon
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha