1. Family: Hokan
  2. Genus: Palaihnihan

Achumawi

WALS coordinates: 41° 30′ N, 121° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Large
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
      Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Tone Simple tone system
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Nominal Categories
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P are fused
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin
      Predicative Adjectives Mixed
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different