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

Rawang

WALS coordinates: 27° 30′ N, 97° 30′ E

spoken in Myanmar

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Rawang
Routledge:
  • Rawang (Mixed)
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
    The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions
    The Future Tense No inflectional future
    The Perfect Other perfect
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    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 Polar Question Particles Final
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit