Mizo

WALS coordinates: 23° 10′ N, 92° 50′ E

spoken in Bangladesh, India

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Mizo
Routledge:
  • Lushai-Mizo
Other:
  • Lushai (Mizo),
  • Lushai
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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63A Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with' Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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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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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative before and after Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final 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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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Split Simple Clauses
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Absent Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession Locational Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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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 SOVNeg 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 postverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SOVNeg Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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