1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Bodic

Chantyal

WALS coordinates: 28° 35′ N, 83° 25′ E

spoken in Nepal

Alternative Names

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

        Features

        Feature Value References
        Nominal Categories
        Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
        Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
        The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
        Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
        Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
        Numeral Classifiers Optional
        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
        Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
        Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
        Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
        Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
        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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
        Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
        Simple Clauses
        Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
        Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
        Negative Morphemes Negative affix
        Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
        Polar Questions Mixture of previous two types
        Complex Sentences
        'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
        Lexicon
        Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha