Nuuchahnulth

WALS coordinates: 49° 40′ 12.00″ N, 126° 40′ 12.00″ W

spoken in Canada

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nootka
Routledge:
  • Nootka
Other:
  • Nuuchahnulth (Tseshaht),
  • Nuuchahnutlh (Tseshaht, Tsishaath)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Large
Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants
Glottalized Consonants Ejectives and glottalized resonants
Lateral Consonants No /l/, but lateral obstruents
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Complex
Tone No tones
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants Pharyngeals
Morphology
Locus of Marking in the Clause No marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
Verbal Categories
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host
Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
Passive Constructions Present
Applicative Constructions Benefactive object; both bases
Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different
M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns