Rutul

WALS coordinates: 41° 30′ N, 47° 25′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Large
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants	Uvular stops and continuants
Glottalized Consonants	Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Complex
Tone	Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	Pharyngeals
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
The Associative Plural	Associative same as additive plural
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Mixed type
The Optative	Inflectional optative present
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality	Verbal affix or clitic
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	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
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 Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb