1. Family: Oto-Manguean
  2. Genus: Chinantecan

Chinantec (Palantla)

WALS coordinates: 18° 50′ N, 96° 45′ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chinantec
Routledge:
  • Chinanteko
Other:
  • Palantla Chinantec
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
The Perfect Other perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
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
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only