Cherokee

WALS coordinates: 35° 30′ N, 83° 30′ W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cherokee
Routledge:
Other:
  • Tsalagi,
  • Cherokee, North Carolina
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone Simple tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses Relative clause-Noun (RelN) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Second position Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Mixed Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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138A Tea Others Lexicon
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141A Writing Systems Syllabic Other
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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