1. Family: Nakh-Daghestanian
  2. Subfamily: Daghestanian
  3. Genus: Avar-Andic-Tsezic

Godoberi

WALS coordinates: 42° 40′ N, 46° 5′ E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Prominence
      Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
      Nominal Categories
      Number of Genders Three
      Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based
      Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related by gender markers
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular
      Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Nominal Syntax
      Action Nominal Constructions Sentential
      Verbal Categories
      The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      The Optative Inflectional optative present
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
      Coding of Evidentiality Part of the tense system
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Neutral
      Verbal Person Marking No person marking
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Antipassive Constructions Implicit patient
      Applicative Constructions No applicative construction
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
      Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible