1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Germanic

Frisian

WALS coordinates: 53° N, 5° E

spoken in Netherlands, Germany

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Frisian
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      The Associative Plural Unique periphrastic associative plural
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Verbal Categories
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
      Polar Questions Interrogative word order