Pima Bajo

WALS coordinates: 29° N, 111° W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Pima (Bajo)
Routledge:
  • Pima (Lower)
Other:
  • Pima (Lower),
  • Pima Bajo
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Nominal Syntax
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
Epistemic Possibility Affixes on verbs
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap
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 Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable