1. Family: Austro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Mon-Khmer
  3. Genus: Bahnaric

Sapuan

WALS coordinates: 15° 10′ 12.00″ N, 106° 49′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Laos

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Ordinal Numerals One, two, three
      Verbal Categories
      The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Comparative Constructions Exceed
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
      Lexicon
      Numeral Bases Decimal