1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Armenian

Armenian (Western)

WALS coordinates: 38° 30′ N, 43° 30′ E

spoken in Turkey

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Armenian
Routledge:
  • Armenian
Other:
  • W Armenian,
  • West Armenian,
  • Armenian (West),
  • Western Armenian,
  • W. Armenian
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Reduplication Full reduplication only
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles Definite affix
Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality Part of the tense system
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial 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 NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different