Santa

WALS coordinates: 31° 30′ N, 107° 30′ E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal	No initial velar nasal
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology