Pumi

WALS coordinates: 28° N, 101° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural clitic
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality	Verbal affix or clitic
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Relative clause-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Final subordinator word
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Question particle