1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Mongolic

Buriat

WALS coordinates: 52° N, 108° E

spoken in China, Russia, Mongolia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Buriat
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Buryat
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, optional in inanimates
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person stem + nominal plural affix
    The Associative Plural Unique affixal associative plural
    Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, with interrogative
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Action Nominal Constructions Possessive-Accusative
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
    The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
    The Future Tense No inflectional future
    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 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 Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    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 Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha