Chaldean (Modern)

WALS coordinates: 36° N, 43° E

spoken in Iraq

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective 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 Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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