1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Bodic

Sherpa

WALS coordinates: 27° 45′ N, 86° 50′ E

spoken in Nepal

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      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 Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      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 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
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Question particle