1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Iranian

Ossetic

WALS coordinates: 43° N, 44° E

spoken in Russia, Georgia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ossetic
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Left-edge: First or second
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel
      Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
      Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists
      Possessive Classification Two classes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      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 Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
      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 AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P
      Passive Constructions Present
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation No predicate negation
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns M-T pronouns, paradigmatic
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns
      Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha