Omaha

WALS coordinates: 42° N, 97° 15′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Omaha
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Dhegiha (Ponca),
    • Dhegiha,
    • Cegiha
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
    Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
    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 Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Question particle