Dumi

WALS coordinates: 27° 15′ N, 86° 40′ E

spoken in Nepal

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Related for non-human reference
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns	No politeness distinction
Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation
Ordinal Numerals	None
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive	Special imperative + normal negative
The Optative	Inflectional optative present
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality	Separate particle
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	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	No dominant order
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
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 AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Predicative Adjectives	Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Possible