1. Family: Iroquoian
  2. Genus: Northern Iroquoian

Seneca

WALS coordinates: 42° 30′ N, 77° 30′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants No laterals
      Vowel Nasalization Contrast present
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Tone No tones
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-oriented: One of the last three
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Prominence
      Rhythm Types Iambic
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Nominal Categories
      Number of Genders Three
      Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based
      Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic
      Ordinal Numerals None
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
      The Past Tense No past tense
      The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
      The Perfect No perfect
      Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None
      Verbal Number and Suppletion None
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Antipassive Constructions No antipassive
      Applicative Constructions Benefactive and other; both bases
      Predicative Possession Locational
      Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Identical
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns