Shan
WALS coordinates: 22° N, 98° E
spoken in Myanmar
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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| Routledge: | |
| Other: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phonology | |||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | ||
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | ||
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | ||
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | ||
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | ||
| Uvular Consonants | None | ||
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | ||
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | ||
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | ||
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | ||
| Tone | Complex tone system | ||
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | ||
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | ||
| Word Order | |||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SVO | ||
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | ||
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | ||
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Noun-Genitive | ||
