1. Family: Uralic
  2. Genus: Samoyedic

Nganasan

WALS coordinates: 71° N, 93° E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nganasan
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Moderately small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low
      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 High only
      Syllable Structure Moderately complex
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Reduplication No productive reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology