1. Family: Hokan
  2. Genus: Yuman

Cocopa

WALS coordinates: 32° 20′ N, 115° W

spoken in Mexico, United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cocopa
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Yuman (Delta River),
    • Delta River Yuman
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Average
    Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio High
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants Uvular stops only
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Complex
    Tone No tones
    Fixed Stress Locations Ultimate
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative
    Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives Monoexponential case
    Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
    Reduplication Full reduplication only
    Case Syncretism No syncretism
    Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking Not syncretic
    Nominal Categories
    Number of Genders None
    Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender
    Systems of Gender Assignment No gender
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural stem change
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Number-indifferent pronouns
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
    Simple Clauses
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Identical
    Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te