Naga (Tangkhul)

WALS coordinates: 25° N, 94° 30′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural clitic
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative	Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + normal negative
Situational Possibility	Affixes on verbs
Epistemic Possibility	Affixes on verbs
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking	Overlap for either possibility or necessity
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Mixed
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology
Predicative Possession	Topic
Comparative Constructions	Locational
Complex Sentences
Purpose Clauses	Deranked
'When' Clauses	Deranked
Reason Clauses	Deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses	Balanced