Jiarong

WALS coordinates: 31° 30′ N, 102° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
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 NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb