1. Family: Uralic
  2. Genus: Samoyedic

Enets

WALS coordinates: 67° 30′ N, 86° 30′ E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Enets
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Yenisey Samoyed
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    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 Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    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
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology