1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Mirish

Nishi

WALS coordinates: 27° 30′ N, 93° 30′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nishi
Routledge:
  • Dafla
Other:
  • Dafla
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
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Complex
Tone Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OXV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative before and after Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
Negative Morphemes Negative affix