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KML
Family:
Uralic
Genus:
Samoyedic
Kamass
WALS coordinates: 52° N, 92° E
spoken in
Russia
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Kamas
Ruhlen:
Kamas
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:
xas
Features
Feature
Value
References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality
Plural suffix
Definite Articles
Demonstrative word used as definite article
Position of Case Affixes
Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals
Identity
Ordinal Numerals
First, two-th, three-th
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative
Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive
Special imperative + special negative
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
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
Expression of Pronominal Subjects
Subject affixes on verb
Comparative Constructions
Locational