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

Lisu

WALS coordinates: 26° N, 98° E

spoken in China, Myanmar

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Nominal Syntax
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
      Word Order
      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 No dominant order
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Predicative Possession Topic
      Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
      Lexicon
      Tea Others