Chepang

WALS coordinates: 27° 40′ N, 84° 45′ E

spoken in Nepal

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations	Initial
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	No weight
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Verbal Categories
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect	Grammatical marking
The Past Tense	No past tense
The Future Tense	Inflectional future exists
The Perfect	Other perfect
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Relative clause-Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Hierarchical
Verbal Person Marking	A or P argument
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero in all 3sg forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions	Absent
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix