Nar-Phu

WALS coordinates: 28° 40′ N, 84° 15′ E

spoken in Nepal

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural clitic
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	All nouns, always optional
Indefinite Articles	Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics
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 Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Relative clause-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
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 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
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Optional pronouns in subject position
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects	Subject is left implicit