Noghay
WALS coordinates: 44° N, 46° E
spoken in Russia
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| The Velar Nasal | No initial velar nasal | |
| Morphology | ||
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | |
| Indefinite Pronouns | Mixed | |
| Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | |
| Ordinal Numerals | First/one-th, two-th, three-th | |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive suffixes | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| The Optative | Inflectional optative present | |
| 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 | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | OV and AdjN | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Identical | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| Tea | Words derived from Sinitic cha | |
