1. Family: Uto-Aztecan
  2. Genus: Numic

Paiute (Northern)

WALS coordinates: 42° N, 118° W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Paiute (Northern)
Routledge:
Other:
  • N. Paiute,
  • Northern Paiute,
  • Paviotso,
  • N Paiute
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
9A The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, optional in inanimates 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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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic 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 No dominant order 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 Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Second position Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel 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 Obligatory pronouns in subject position Simple Clauses
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106A Reciprocal Constructions Mixed Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix 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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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 NegSOV 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 Beginning, not immed preverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages NegSOV Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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