Seri

WALS coordinates: 29° N, 112° W

spoken in Mexico

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel Phonology
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17A Rhythm Types Undetermined Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication No productive reduplication Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Only internally-headed relative clauses Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Internally headed Word Order
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90D Internally-headed relative clauses Internally-headed relative clause dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit Complex Sentences
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Identical Lexicon
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130B Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand' Hunter-gatherers Lexicon
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green/blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[Neg-V] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order Prefix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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