Nanai

WALS coordinates: 49° 30′ N, 137° E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal	Initial velar nasal
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Nominal Categories
The Associative Plural	Associative same as additive plural
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Absent
Possessive Classification	Two classes
Simple Clauses
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation	Predicate negation also present
Predicative Adjectives	Nonverbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication	Identical
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Possible
Lexicon
M-T Pronouns	M-T pronouns, paradigmatic
N-M Pronouns	No N-M pronouns
Tea	Words derived from Sinitic cha