Chin (Mara)

WALS coordinates: 23° N, 93° 10′ 12.00″ E

Alternative Names

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