Shasta
WALS coordinates: 41° 49′ 48.00″ N, 122° 40′ 12.00″ W
spoken in United States
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Moderately small | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Small (2-4) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives only | |
| Lateral Consonants | No laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | |
| Tone | Simple tone system | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Numeral Classifiers | Absent | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Mixed type | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | No dominant order | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | No dominant order | |
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | |
| Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | No dominant order | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Identical | |
| M-T Pronouns | No M-T pronouns | |
| N-M Pronouns | No N-M pronouns | |
