1. Family: Uralic
  2. Subfamily: Finno-Ugric
  3. Genus: Finnic

Komi-Zyrian

WALS coordinates: 65° N, 55° E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Komi
Routledge:
  • Komi-Zyryan
Other:
  • Zyrian,
  • Komi
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately large
Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Complex
Tone No tones
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Nominal Categories
The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals Mixed
Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
Possessive Classification No possessive classification
Verbal Categories
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality Mixed
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible