1. Family: Muskogean
  2. Genus: Muskogean

Koasati

WALS coordinates: 34° 50′ N, 85° 10′ W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Koasati
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Other:
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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10A Vowel Nasalization Contrast present Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone Complex tone system Phonology
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14A Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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20A Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative Morphology
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21A Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives Monoexponential case Morphology
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21B Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection monoexponential TAM Morphology
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22A Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb 12-13 categories per word Morphology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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28A Case Syncretism No syncretism Morphology
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29A Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking Not syncretic Morphology
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30A Number of Genders None Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment No gender Nominal Categories
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, optional Nominal Categories
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35A Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number affixes Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative Nominal Categories
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39A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns No inclusive/exclusive Nominal Categories
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40A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection No inclusive/exclusive Nominal Categories
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41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Five (or more)-way contrast Nominal Categories
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42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical Nominal Categories
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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Differentiated Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases 6-7 cases Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Symmetrical Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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58A Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists Nominal Syntax
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58B Number of Possessive Nouns None reported Nominal Syntax
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59A Possessive Classification Two classes Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense Inflectional future exists Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect No perfect Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Affixes on verbs Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Affixes on verbs Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for either possibility or necessity Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion Singular-dual-plural triples, no suppletion Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OVX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses RelN or internally-headed Word Order
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90D Internally-headed relative clauses Internally-headed or RelN Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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98A Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases Nominative - accusative (standard) Simple Clauses
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Active Simple Clauses
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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106A Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Present Simple Clauses
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108A Antipassive Constructions No antipassive Simple Clauses
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108B Productivity of the Antipassive Construction no antipassive Simple Clauses
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109A Applicative Constructions No applicative construction Simple Clauses
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109B Other Roles of Applied Objects No applicative construction Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Both Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession Topic Simple Clauses
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122A Relativization on Subjects Non-reduction Complex Sentences
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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131A Numeral Bases Decimal Lexicon
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136A M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular No m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular No m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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