Family: Penutian
Genus: Sahaptian

Nez Perce

WALS coordinates: 46° N, 116° W

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Nez Perce
Ruhlen:	Nez Perce
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ISO 639-3:	nez (article in Wikipedia)

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Moderately large	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately high	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	Uvular stops and continuants	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	Ejectives and glottalized resonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	/l/ and lateral obstruent	Phonology	comment
9A	The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal	Phonology	comment
10A	Vowel Nasalization	Contrast absent	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	No tones	Phonology	comment
14A	Fixed Stress Locations	No fixed stress	Phonology	comment
15A	Weight-Sensitive Stress	Not predictable	Phonology	comment
16A	Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	Lexical stress	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing	Morphology	comment
27A	Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication	Morphology	comment
28A	Case Syncretism	No syncretism	Morphology	comment
29A	Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking	Not syncretic	Morphology	comment
30A	Number of Genders	None	Nominal Categories	comment
31A	Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender	Nominal Categories	comment
32A	Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender	Nominal Categories	comment
35A	Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number stem	Nominal Categories	comment
39A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns	No inclusive/exclusive	Nominal Categories	comment
40A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection	'We' the same as 'I'	Nominal Categories	comment
41A	Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Two-way contrast	Nominal Categories	comment examples
42A	Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	Identical	Nominal Categories	comment examples
43A	Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Unrelated	Nominal Categories	comment examples
44A	Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions	Nominal Categories	comment
45A	Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns	No politeness distinction	Nominal Categories	comment
46A	Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based	Nominal Categories	comment
47A	Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns	Differentiated	Nominal Categories	comment
48A	Person Marking on Adpositions	No adpositions	Nominal Categories	comment
49A	Number of Cases	10 or more cases	Nominal Categories	comment
50A	Asymmetrical Case-Marking	Symmetrical	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
53A	Ordinal Numerals	First, two-th, three-th	Nominal Categories	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes	Nominal Categories	comment
58A	Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Exists	Nominal Syntax	comment
58B	Number of Possessive Nouns	None reported	Nominal Syntax	comment
59A	Possessive Classification	No possessive classification	Nominal Syntax	comment examples
62A	Action Nominal Constructions	Possessive-Accusative	Nominal Syntax	comment examples
64A	Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Differentiation	Nominal Syntax	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes	Verbal Categories	comment
70A	The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural	Verbal Categories	comment
72A	Imperative-Hortative Systems	Maximal system	Verbal Categories	comment
73A	The Optative	Inflectional optative absent	Verbal Categories	comment
74A	Situational Possibility	Affixes on verbs	Verbal Categories	comment
75A	Epistemic Possibility	Other	Verbal Categories	comment
76A	Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking	No overlap	Verbal Categories	comment
77A	Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials	Verbal Categories	comment
78A	Coding of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials	Verbal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
84A	Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun	Word Order	comment
90A	Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause	Word Order	comment
90C	Postnominal relative clauses	Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant	Word Order	comment
91A	Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial	Word Order	comment
93A	Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase	Word Order	comment
94A	Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word	Word Order	comment
95A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Other	Word Order	comment
96A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Other	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	Other	Word Order	comment
98A	Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases	Tripartite	Simple Clauses	comment examples
99A	Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns	Tripartite	Simple Clauses	comment examples
100A	Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Split	Simple Clauses	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
102A	Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments	Simple Clauses	comment
103A	Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No zero realization	Simple Clauses	comment
104A	Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A precedes P	Simple Clauses	comment
107A	Passive Constructions	Present	Simple Clauses	comment
108A	Antipassive Constructions	Oblique patient	Simple Clauses	comment
108B	Productivity of the Antipassive Construction	productive	Simple Clauses	comment
109A	Applicative Constructions	Benefactive and other; both bases	Simple Clauses	comment
109B	Other Roles of Applied Objects	Locative	Simple Clauses	comment
111A	Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative particle	Simple Clauses	comment
113A	Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Symmetric	Simple Clauses	comment
114A	Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	Non-assignable	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Question particle	Simple Clauses	comment
118A	Predicative Adjectives	Nonverbal encoding	Simple Clauses	comment
119A	Nominal and Locational Predication	Identical	Simple Clauses	comment
120A	Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible	Simple Clauses	comment
129A	Hand and Arm	Different	Lexicon	comment examples
130A	Finger and Hand	Identical	Lexicon	comment
130B	Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand'	Hunter-gatherers	Lexicon	comment
131A	Numeral Bases	Decimal	Lexicon	comment examples
142A	Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks	Other or none	Other	comment
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	NegV	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	NegV	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment
144A	Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb	Other	Word Order	comment
144B	Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb	Beginning, not immed preverbal	Word Order	comment