Shasta

WALS coordinates: 41° 49′ 48.00″ N, 122° 40′ 12.00″ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      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