1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Kuki-Chin-Naga

Naga (Zeme)

WALS coordinates: 25° 10′ N, 93° 30′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Zeme
Routledge:
  • Zemi
Other:
  • Zeliangrong,
  • Empeo,
  • Zeme Naga,
  • Kachcha Naga,
  • Naga (Kachcha)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
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 Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Position of Polar Question Particles Final
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 NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle