1. Family: Uto-Aztecan
  2. Genus: Numic

Kawaiisu

WALS coordinates: 36° N, 117° 30′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Average
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /g/
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Tone No tones
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Nominal Categories
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular
      Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns and nouns
      Verbal Categories
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Hierarchical
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb Both orders of A and P occur
      Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
      Passive Constructions Present
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different