1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Kuki-Chin-Naga

Ao

WALS coordinates: 26° 35′ N, 94° 40′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In fricatives alone
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Moderately complex
      Tone Complex tone system
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      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 Mixed
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Subordinating suffix
      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 Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Question particle