Dargwa

WALS coordinates: 42° 15′ N, 47° 25′ E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person stem + pronominal plural affix
The Associative Plural	Unique affixal associative plural
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	Identical
Distributive Numerals	Marked by reduplication
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers	Formally similar, with interrogative
Nominal Syntax
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses	Highly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns	Without marking
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Identity
Verbal Categories
The Optative	Inflectional optative present
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	Adjective-Noun
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
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Indirect-object construction
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects	Subject is left implicit