Chimariko

WALS coordinates: 41° N, 123° W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing
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	No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	No nominal plural
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Prefixes and suffixes
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Absent
Possessive Classification	Two classes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
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
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
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
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different
M-T Pronouns	No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns	N-M pronouns, paradigmatic