1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Tungusic

Even

WALS coordinates: 68° N, 130° E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Even
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Lamut
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Tone No tones
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Ordinal Numerals First/one-th, two-th, three-th
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    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
    Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive
    Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Possession Genitive
    Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Comparative Constructions Locational
    Lexicon
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha