1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Iranian

Tajik

WALS coordinates: 38° 40′ 12.00″ N, 70° E

spoken in Tajikistan

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tajiki
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Tadzhik
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations Ultimate
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    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 Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    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 OV and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Possession 'Have'
    Comparative Constructions Locational
    Lexicon
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha