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

Frisian

WALS coordinates: 53° N, 5° E

spoken in Germany, Netherlands

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
36A The Associative Plural Unique periphrastic associative plural Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one' Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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81B Languages with two Dominant Orders of Subject, Object, and Verb SOV or SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative word order Simple Clauses
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