1. Family: Austro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Mon-Khmer
  3. Genus: Bahnaric

Sre

WALS coordinates: 11° 30′ N, 108° E

spoken in Vietnam

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sre
Routledge:
  • Koho
Other:
  • Koho,
  • Srê,
  • Köho,
  • Srê (Köho)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Small
Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants Implosives only
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Complex
Tone Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
Comitatives and Instrumentals Mixed
Verbal Categories
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions Question particle
Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible