1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Turkic

Azerbaijani

WALS coordinates: 40° 30′ N, 48° 30′ E

spoken in Azerbaijan, Iran

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Average
      Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Front Rounded Vowels High and mid
      Syllable Structure Moderately complex
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Ordinal Numerals First/one-th, two-th, three-th
      Numeral Classifiers Optional
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
      The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions
      The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
      The Perfect Other perfect
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Optative Inflectional optative present
      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 Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      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
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Identical
      Finger and Hand Different
      Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha