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

Gujarati

WALS coordinates: 23° N, 72° E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gujarati
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 Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Prominence
      Nominal Categories
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
      Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical
      Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
      Nominal Syntax
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      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
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
      Lexicon
      Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha