Chontal (Highland)
WALS coordinates: 16° 15′ N, 95° 45′ W
spoken in Mexico
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Morphology | ||
| Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative | |
| Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | No case | |
| Locus of Marking in the Clause | Head marking | |
| Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Head marking | |
| Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology | Head-marking | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Obligatory Possessive Inflection | Exists | |
| Possessive Classification | No possessive classification | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Identical | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| M-T Pronouns | No M-T pronouns | |
| N-M Pronouns | N-M pronouns, paradigmatic | |
