Montagnais
WALS coordinates: 52° N, 65° W
spoken in Canada
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
|---|---|
| Ruhlen: | |
| Routledge: | |
| Other: | |
| ISO 639-3: |
Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | No grammatical marking | |
| The Past Tense | Present, no remoteness distinctions | |
| The Future Tense | Inflectional future exists | |
| The Perfect | Other perfect | |
| Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | Indirect only | |
| Coding of Evidentiality | Verbal affix or clitic | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |