Oriya

WALS coordinates: 21° N, 85° E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	All nouns, always optional
Definite Articles	Definite affix
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns	Identical
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Numeral and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Correlative
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 Relative Clause and Noun	Other
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Question particle
Lexicon
Tea	Words derived from Sinitic cha
Other
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks	Logical meanings