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KML
Family:
Sino-Tibetan
Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
Genus:
Kuki-Chin-Naga
Chin (Mara)
WALS coordinates: 23° N, 93° 10′ 12.00″ E
spoken in
India
,
Myanmar
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Chin, Mara
Ruhlen:
Maram
Routledge:
Other:
Lakher
,
Mara
ISO 639-3:
mrh
Features
Feature
Value
References
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality
Plural word
Definite Articles
No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles
No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes
Postpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
No possessive affixes
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
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
Demonstrative before and after Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun
Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun
Internally headed
Order of Degree Word and Adjective
Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles
Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
Final subordinator word
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
Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions
Question particle
Predicative Adjectives
Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication
Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
Impossible