Gitksan

WALS coordinates: 55° 20′ N, 127° 45′ W

spoken in Canada

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural prefix
Definite Articles	Definite affix
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb	No dominant order
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 Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
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
Polar Questions	Question particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Identical
Finger and Hand	Different
M-T Pronouns	No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns	N-M pronouns, non-paradigmatic