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KML
Family:
Austro-Asiatic
Subfamily: Mon-Khmer
Genus:
Bahnaric
Stieng
WALS coordinates: 11° 50′ N, 106° 45′ E
spoken in
Vietnam
,
Cambodia
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Stieng, Bulo
Stieng, Budeh
Ruhlen:
Stieng
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:
sti
stt
Features
Feature
Value
References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal
Initial velar nasal
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality
Plural word
Definite Articles
No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles
No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes
No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
No tense-aspect inflection
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
SVO
Order of Subject and Verb
SV
Order of Object and Verb
VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
VOX
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
No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles
Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
Initial subordinator word
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 Adjective and Noun
VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes
Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
Polar Questions
Question particle