1. Family: Chitimacha
  2. Genus: Chitimacha

Chitimacha

WALS coordinates: 29° 40′ N, 91° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chitimacha
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
      Morphology
      Locus of Marking in the Clause Head marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases No marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory
      Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists
      Possessive Classification No possessive classification
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      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 Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns