1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Semitic

Mehri

WALS coordinates: 18° N, 53° E

spoken in Yemen

Alternative Names

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

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, optional in inanimates
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
    Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions
    Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    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 VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly