1. Family: Hokan
  2. Genus: Seri

Seri

WALS coordinates: 29° N, 112° W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel
      Rhythm Types Undetermined
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
      Reduplication No productive reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      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 Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      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 NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Identical
      Finger and Hand Identical
      Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
      Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5
      Green and Blue Green/blue
      Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow