Panjabi

WALS coordinates: 31° N, 74° E

spoken in India, Pakistan

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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30A Number of Genders Two Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic and formal Nominal Categories
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory Nominal Categories
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36A The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast Nominal Categories
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42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical Nominal Categories
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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Special Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases 2 cases Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Syncretism in relevant NP-types Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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56A Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, with interrogative Nominal Categories
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62A Action Nominal Constructions Possessive-Accusative Nominal Syntax
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense Inflectional future exists Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect Other perfect Verbal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses RelN or internally-headed Word Order
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90D Internally-headed relative clauses Internally-headed or RelN Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Initial Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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108A Antipassive Constructions No antipassive Simple Clauses
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108B Productivity of the Antipassive Construction no antipassive Simple Clauses
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109A Applicative Constructions No applicative construction Simple Clauses
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109B Other Roles of Applied Objects No applicative construction Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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125A Purpose Clauses Deranked Complex Sentences
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126A 'When' Clauses Balanced/deranked Complex Sentences
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127A Reason Clauses Balanced/deranked Complex Sentences
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128A Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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138A Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SONegV Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SONegV Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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