Cora

WALS coordinates: 22° 10′ N, 104° 50′ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cora
Routledge:
  • Kora
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Nominal Categories
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns and nouns
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
    Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P
    Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
    Passive Constructions Present
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different