1. Family: Penutian
  2. Genus: Sahaptian

Sahaptin (Northern)

WALS coordinates: 46° 30′ N, 120° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns N-M pronouns, paradigmatic