1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Turkic

Karakalpak

WALS coordinates: 43° N, 60° E

spoken in Uzbekistan

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
      Indefinite Pronouns Special
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      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 Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-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
      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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Lexicon
      Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha