1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Semitic

Chaldean (Modern)

WALS coordinates: 36° N, 43° E

spoken in Iraq

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Syriac
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Modern Chaldean,
    • Syriac,
    • Chaldean
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    Word Order
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound