1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Genus: Atayalic

Atayal

WALS coordinates: 24° 30′ N, 121° 20′ E

spoken in Taiwan

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In fricatives alone
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
      Uvular Consonants Uvular stops only
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants Pharyngeals
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
      Nominal Categories
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Distributive Numerals No distributive numerals
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      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 VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Ergative
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host
      Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Lexicon
      Tea Others