1. Family: Tai-Kadai
  2. Genus: Kam-Tai

Dong

WALS coordinates: 27° N, 109° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kam
Routledge:
  • Kam
Other:
  • Tung,
  • Dong (Southern),
  • Tung-Chia
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
Number of Cases No morphological case-marking
Asymmetrical Case-Marking No case-marking
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
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 Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles Final
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 VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Neutral
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions Present
Antipassive Constructions No antipassive
Polar Questions Question particle