1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Burmese-Lolo

Akha

WALS coordinates: 21° 50′ N, 99° 50′ E

spoken in China, Thailand, Myanmar

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
      Nominal Categories
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Word Order
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit