1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Mirish

Digaro

WALS coordinates: 28° 25′ 12.00″ N, 96° E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Digaro
Routledge:
  • Taraon
Other:
  • Digaro Mishmi,
  • Taraon, Mishmi,
  • Mishmi (Digaro)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives Monoexponential case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb 4-5 categories per word
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
Possessive Classification No possessive classification
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
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 Relative clause-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
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 RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different