Chin (Mara)

WALS coordinates: 23° N, 93° 10′ E

spoken in India, Myanmar

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Maram
Routledge:
Other:
  • Lakher,
  • Mara
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun 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 before and after Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Internally headed Word Order
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90D Internally-headed relative clauses Internally-headed relative clause dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions 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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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb VNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb Other Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed postverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SV&OV&VNeg Word Order
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