1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Bodic

Limbu

WALS coordinates: 27° 10′ N, 87° 45′ E

spoken in Bhutan, India, Nepal

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
      The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite affix
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different inflection
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related to remote demonstratives
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Ordinal Numerals None
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists
      Possessive Classification Three to five classes
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
      The Optative Inflectional optative present
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
      Word Order
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      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 Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Subordinating suffix
      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
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Hierarchical
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb Both orders of A and P occur
      Passive Constructions Present
      Periphrastic Causative Constructions Purposive but no sequential
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Double negation
      Predicative Possession Genitive
      Comparative Constructions Locational
      Complex Sentences
      Purpose Clauses Deranked
      'When' Clauses Balanced/deranked
      Reason Clauses Balanced/deranked
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced