1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Romance

Catalan

WALS coordinates: 41° 45′ N, 2° E

spoken in Spain

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Catalan
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Catalan, Eastern
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Average
    Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
    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 No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone No tones
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Lexical stress
    Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Reduplication No productive reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
    Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Differentiated
    Number of Cases No morphological case-marking
    Asymmetrical Case-Marking Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
    Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
    Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions
    Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for either possibility or necessity
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    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 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 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
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te