1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Kuki-Chin-Naga

Chin (Tiddim)

WALS coordinates: 23° 19′ 48.00″ N, 93° 40′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Myanmar

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
    • Chin (North)
    Other:
    • Tiddim Chin,
    • Tedim Chin,
    • Chin (Tedim),
    • Kamhau
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Average
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants Glottalized resonants only
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone Complex tone system
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
    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-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    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 Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle