1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Qiangic

Qiang

WALS coordinates: 32° N, 102° 40′ E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ch'iang
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Chiang
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
    Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
    Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    Word Order
    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 Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix