1. Family: Mayan
  2. Genus: Mayan

Mam

WALS coordinates: 15° N, 91° 50′ W

spoken in Guatemala

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Combined: Right-edge and unbounded
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Combined
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
      Reduplication No productive reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
      Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives No distance contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      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
      Reciprocal Constructions No reciprocals
      Antipassive Constructions Oblique patient
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin and A/Cat
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly