Family: Uto-Aztecan
Genus: Tarahumaran

Tarahumara (Central)

WALS coordinates: 27° 30′ N, 107° 30′ W

spoken in Mexico

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Tarahumara, Central
Ruhlen:	Tarahumara
Routledge:	Tarahumara
Other:	Central Tarahumara, Tarahumara, Tarahumara-Cent
ISO 639-3:	tar (article in Wikipedia)

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
9A	The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal	Phonology	comment
37A	Definite Articles	Demonstrative word used as definite article	Nominal Categories	comment
38A	Indefinite Articles	Indefinite word same as 'one'	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes	Verbal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	SV	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	OV	Word Order	comment
84A	Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	XOV	Word Order	comment
85A	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun	Word Order	comment
90A	Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause	Word Order	comment
90C	Postnominal relative clauses	Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant	Word Order	comment
91A	Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective	Word Order	comment
93A	Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase	Word Order	comment
95A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions	Word Order	comment
96A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	OV and NRel	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN	Word Order	comment
106A	Reciprocal Constructions	Distinct from reflexive	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative particle	Simple Clauses	comment
129A	Hand and Arm	Identical	Lexicon	comment examples
130A	Finger and Hand	Different	Lexicon	comment examples
132A	Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories	5	Lexicon	comment
133A	Number of Basic Colour Categories	4.5-5.5	Lexicon	comment
134A	Green and Blue	Green/blue	Lexicon	comment
135A	Red and Yellow	Red/yellow	Lexicon	comment
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	NegV	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	NegV	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment
144A	Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb	Other	Word Order	comment
144L	The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages	Other NegV	Word Order	comment
144S	SOVNeg Order	NoSOVNeg	Word Order	comment