Family: Austro-Asiatic
Subfamily: Mon-Khmer
Genus: Khasian

Khasi

WALS coordinates: 25° 30′ N, 92° E

spoken in India

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Khasi
Ruhlen:	Khasi
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:	kha (article in Wikipedia)

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Average	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Missing /g/	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals	Phonology	comment
9A	The Velar Nasal	Initial velar nasal	Phonology	comment
10A	Vowel Nasalization	Contrast absent	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	No tones	Phonology	comment
14A	Fixed Stress Locations	Ultimate	Phonology	comment
15A	Weight-Sensitive Stress	Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)	Phonology	comment
16A	Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	No weight	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
20A	Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Exclusively isolating	Morphology	comment
21A	Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Monoexponential case	Morphology	comment
21B	Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection	monoexponential TAM	Morphology	comment
22A	Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb	4-5 categories per word	Morphology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Little affixation	Morphology	comment
27A	Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication	Morphology	comment
28A	Case Syncretism	No case marking	Morphology	comment
29A	Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking	No subject person/number marking	Morphology	comment
30A	Number of Genders	Two	Nominal Categories	comment
31A	Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	Sex-based	Nominal Categories	comment
32A	Systems of Gender Assignment	Semantic	Nominal Categories	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural word	Nominal Categories	comment
35A	Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person stem + pronominal plural affix	Nominal Categories	comment
37A	Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article	Nominal Categories	comment
38A	Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article	Nominal Categories	comment
39A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns	No inclusive/exclusive	Nominal Categories	comment
40A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection	No person marking	Nominal Categories	comment
41A	Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Three-way contrast	Nominal Categories	comment examples
42A	Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	Identical	Nominal Categories	comment examples
43A	Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Related for all demonstratives	Nominal Categories	comment examples
44A	Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	3rd person singular only	Nominal Categories	comment
45A	Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns	Binary politeness distinction	Nominal Categories	comment examples
46A	Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based	Nominal Categories	comment
47A	Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns	Differentiated	Nominal Categories	comment
48A	Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking	Nominal Categories	comment
49A	Number of Cases	No morphological case-marking	Nominal Categories	comment
50A	Asymmetrical Case-Marking	No case-marking	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics	Nominal Categories	comment
52A	Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation	Nominal Categories	comment examples
53A	Ordinal Numerals	First, two-th, three-th	Nominal Categories	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes	Nominal Categories	comment
58A	Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Absent	Nominal Syntax	comment
58B	Number of Possessive Nouns	None reported	Nominal Syntax	comment
59A	Possessive Classification	No possessive classification	Nominal Syntax	comment
63A	Noun Phrase Conjunction	'And' identical to 'with'	Nominal Syntax	comment
64A	Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Identity	Nominal Syntax	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	No tense-aspect inflection	Verbal Categories	comment
74A	Situational Possibility	Verbal constructions	Verbal Categories	comment
75A	Epistemic Possibility	Other	Verbal Categories	comment
76A	Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking	No overlap	Verbal Categories	comment
77A	Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials	Verbal Categories	comment
78A	Coding of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials	Verbal Categories	comment
79A	Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect	None	Verbal Categories	comment
79B	Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives	None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material)	Verbal Categories	comment
80A	Verbal Number and Suppletion	None	Verbal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	SV	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	VO	Word Order	comment
84A	Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	VOX	Word Order	comment
85A	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun	Word Order	comment
90A	Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause	Word Order	comment
90C	Postnominal relative clauses	Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant	Word Order	comment
91A	Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word	Word Order	comment
93A	Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase	Word Order	comment
94A	Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word	Word Order	comment
95A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions	Word Order	comment
96A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	VO and NRel	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj	Word Order	comment
98A	Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases	Nominative - accusative (standard)	Simple Clauses	comment examples
99A	Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns	Nominative - accusative (standard)	Simple Clauses	comment examples
100A	Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative	Simple Clauses	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Obligatory pronouns in subject position	Simple Clauses	comment
102A	Verbal Person Marking	Only the A argument	Simple Clauses	comment
103A	Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No zero realization	Simple Clauses	comment
104A	Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb	Simple Clauses	comment
105A	Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Indirect-object construction	Simple Clauses	comment
107A	Passive Constructions	Absent	Simple Clauses	comment
108A	Antipassive Constructions	No antipassive	Simple Clauses	comment
108B	Productivity of the Antipassive Construction	no antipassive	Simple Clauses	comment
109A	Applicative Constructions	No applicative construction	Simple Clauses	comment
109B	Other Roles of Applied Objects	No applicative construction	Simple Clauses	comment
111A	Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative word, unclear if verb or particle	Simple Clauses	comment
113A	Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Both	Simple Clauses	comment
114A	Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/Cat	Simple Clauses	comment
115A	Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation	Predicate negation also present	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Question particle	Simple Clauses	comment
117A	Predicative Possession	Topic	Simple Clauses	comment
118A	Predicative Adjectives	Mixed	Simple Clauses	comment
119A	Nominal and Locational Predication	Different	Simple Clauses	comment
120A	Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible	Simple Clauses	comment
125A	Purpose Clauses	Deranked	Complex Sentences	comment
126A	'When' Clauses	Balanced	Complex Sentences	comment
127A	Reason Clauses	Balanced	Complex Sentences	comment
128A	Utterance Complement Clauses	Balanced	Complex Sentences	comment
138A	Tea	Words derived from Sinitic cha	Lexicon	comment examples
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	NegV	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	NegV	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment
144A	Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb	SNegVO	Word Order	comment
144B	Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb	Immed preverbal	Word Order	comment
144D	The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages	SNegVO	Word Order	comment
144H	NegSVO Order	No NegSVO	Word Order	comment
144I	SNegVO Order	Word&NoDoubleNeg	Word Order	comment
144J	SVNegO Order	No SVNegO	Word Order	comment
144K	SVONeg Order	No SVONeg	Word Order	comment