1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Mongolic

Moghol

WALS coordinates: 35° N, 62° E

spoken in Afghanistan

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Moghol
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Mogol'
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Average
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
    Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Complex
    Tone No tones
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different