Naga (Mao)

WALS coordinates: 25° 30′ N, 94° 19′ 48.00″ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural word
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Unrelated
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative	Second singular
The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + special negative
The Optative	Inflectional optative absent
Situational Possibility	Other kinds of markers
Epistemic Possibility	Affixes on verbs
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking	No overlap
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 Demonstrative and Noun	Mixed
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Relative clause-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Subordinating suffix
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative auxiliary verb
Polar Questions	Question particle