Kharia

WALS coordinates: 22° 30′ N, 84° 20′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Moderately large
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Moderately complex
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Nominal Categories
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication
      Numeral Classifiers Optional
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
      Simple Clauses
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin