Maithili

WALS coordinates: 26° N, 86° E

spoken in India, Nepal

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Maithili
Routledge:
Other:
  • Bihari
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-oriented: One of the last three Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel Phonology
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17A Rhythm Types Trochaic Phonology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Dependent marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Dependent-marking 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 Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity Nominal Syntax
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense Inflectional future exists Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect Other perfect Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal 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 Verbal constructions 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 No overlap Verbal Categories
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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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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun 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 Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses NRel or correlative Word Order
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90E Correlative relative clauses Correlative or NRel Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word 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 AdjN Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None 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 Other Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SV&OV&ImmedPreverbal Word Order
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