1. Family: Salishan
  2. Genus: Interior Salish

Shuswap

WALS coordinates: 52° N, 120° W

spoken in Canada

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Large
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
      Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants
      Glottalized Consonants Ejectives and glottalized resonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Complex
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Prefixes and suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
      The Past Tense No past tense
      The Future Tense No inflectional future
      The Perfect No perfect
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Position of Polar Question Particles In either of two positions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Periphrastic Causative Constructions Purposive but no sequential
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin and A/NonReal
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Predicative Possession 'Have'
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Identical
      Finger and Hand Different