Assamese

WALS coordinates: 26° N, 93° E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Distributive Numerals	Marked by reduplication
Numeral Classifiers	Obligatory
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
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	No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
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 affix
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation	Predicate negation also present
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects	Subject is left implicit
Lexicon
Tea	Words derived from Sinitic cha