Mehri

WALS coordinates: 17° N, 51° 30′ E

spoken in Oman, Yemen

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • South Arabian
Routledge:
Other:
  • Mahri
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, optional in inanimates Nominal Categories
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35A Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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81B Languages with two Dominant Orders of Subject, Object, and Verb SVO or VSO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase 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 VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly Complex Sentences
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb VNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg 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 More than one position 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 End, not immed postverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages More than one construction Word Order
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144E Multiple Negative Constructions in SVO Languages SVONeg/VSONeg Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order No SNegVO Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages VSONeg/SVONeg Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative No preverbal neg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object None Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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