1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Kuki-Chin-Naga

Sema

WALS coordinates: 26° N, 94° 30′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

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

        Features

        Feature Value References
        Morphology
        Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
        Nominal Categories
        Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
        Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
        Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
        Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
        Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
        Verbal Categories
        Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
        The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
        The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
        Word Order
        Order of Subject and Verb SV
        Order of Object and Verb OV
        Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
        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 Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
        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 Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
        Simple Clauses
        Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
        Verbal Person Marking Only the P argument
        Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking
        Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
        Passive Constructions Absent
        Negative Morphemes Negative affix
        Polar Questions Question particle