Family: Oregon Coast
Genus: Coosan

Coos (Hanis)

WALS coordinates: 43° 30′ N, 124° 10′ W

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Coos
Ruhlen:	Coos
Routledge:	Hanis
Other:	Hanis Coos, Hanis, Coos
ISO 639-3:	csz

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Large	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	High	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	Uvular stops and continuants	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	Ejectives only	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	/l/ and lateral obstruent	Phonology	comment
9A	The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal	Phonology	comment
10A	Vowel Nasalization	Contrast absent	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	No tones	Phonology	comment
14A	Fixed Stress Locations	No fixed stress	Phonology	comment
15A	Weight-Sensitive Stress	Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate	Phonology	comment
16A	Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	No weight	Phonology	comment
17A	Rhythm Types	No rhythmic stress	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
20A	Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Exclusively concatenative	Morphology	comment
23A	Locus of Marking in the Clause	Head marking	Morphology	comment
24A	Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	Head marking	Morphology	comment
25A	Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology	Head-marking	Morphology	comment
25B	Zero Marking of A and P Arguments	Non-zero marking	Morphology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing	Morphology	comment
27A	Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication	Morphology	comment
28A	Case Syncretism	No case marking	Morphology	comment
29A	Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking	Not syncretic	Morphology	comment
30A	Number of Genders	None	Nominal Categories	comment
31A	Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender	Nominal Categories	comment
32A	Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender	Nominal Categories	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Mixed morphological plural	Nominal Categories	comment
34A	Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	Only human nouns, obligatory	Nominal Categories	comment
35A	Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number affixes	Nominal Categories	comment
37A	Definite Articles	Definite word distinct from demonstrative	Nominal Categories	comment
38A	Indefinite Articles	No indefinite, but definite article	Nominal Categories	comment
39A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns	Inclusive/exclusive	Nominal Categories	comment
40A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection	Inclusive/exclusive	Nominal Categories	comment
41A	Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Two-way contrast	Nominal Categories	comment
44A	Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions	Nominal Categories	comment
46A	Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based	Nominal Categories	comment
47A	Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns	Differentiated	Nominal Categories	comment
48A	Person Marking on Adpositions	No adpositions	Nominal Categories	comment
49A	Number of Cases	8-9 cases	Nominal Categories	comment
50A	Asymmetrical Case-Marking	Symmetrical	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics	Nominal Categories	comment
52A	Comitatives and Instrumentals	Mixed	Nominal Categories	comment examples
55A	Numeral Classifiers	Absent	Nominal Categories	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes	Nominal Categories	comment
63A	Noun Phrase Conjunction	'And' different from 'with'	Nominal Syntax	comment
64A	Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Identity	Nominal Syntax	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes	Verbal Categories	comment
70A	The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural	Verbal Categories	comment
71A	The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + normal negative	Verbal Categories	comment
72A	Imperative-Hortative Systems	Minimal system	Verbal Categories	comment
73A	The Optative	Inflectional optative absent	Verbal Categories	comment
75A	Epistemic Possibility	Other	Verbal Categories	comment
76A	Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking	Overlap for either possibility or necessity	Verbal Categories	comment
77A	Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Indirect only	Verbal Categories	comment
78A	Coding of Evidentiality	Separate particle	Verbal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	VS	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
84A	Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
85A	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun	Word Order	comment
90A	Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause	Word Order	comment
90C	Postnominal relative clauses	Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant	Word Order	comment
91A	Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	Final	Word Order	comment
93A	Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase	Word Order	comment
94A	Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word	Word Order	comment
95A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Other	Word Order	comment
96A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Other	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	Other	Word Order	comment
98A	Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases	Ergative - absolutive	Simple Clauses	comment examples
100A	Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative	Simple Clauses	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
102A	Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments	Simple Clauses	comment
103A	Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero in all 3rd person forms	Simple Clauses	comment
104A	Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P are fused	Simple Clauses	comment
105A	Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Secondary-object construction	Simple Clauses	comment
107A	Passive Constructions	Present	Simple Clauses	comment
111A	Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative particle	Simple Clauses	comment
113A	Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Symmetric	Simple Clauses	comment
114A	Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	Non-assignable	Simple Clauses	comment
115A	Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation	Predicate negation also present	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Question particle	Simple Clauses	comment
117A	Predicative Possession	Conjunctional	Simple Clauses	comment
118A	Predicative Adjectives	Verbal encoding	Simple Clauses	comment
119A	Nominal and Locational Predication	Different	Simple Clauses	comment
120A	Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible	Simple Clauses	comment
136A	M-T Pronouns	No M-T pronouns	Lexicon	comment
136B	M in First Person Singular	No m in first person singular	Lexicon	comment
137A	N-M Pronouns	No N-M pronouns	Lexicon	comment
137B	M in Second Person Singular	No m in second person singular	Lexicon	comment
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	NegV	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	NegV	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment