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

Portuguese

WALS coordinates: 39° N, 8° W

spoken in Portugal

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Lexical stress
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Reduplication No productive reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
      The Associative Plural No associative plural
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction
      Indefinite Pronouns Mixed
      Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Differentiated
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
      Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
      The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions
      The Future Tense No inflectional future
      The Perfect No perfect
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
      Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions
      Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for both possibility and necessity
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
      Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Mixed behaviour
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different
      Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha