1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Turkic

Turkmen

WALS coordinates: 40° N, 58° E

spoken in Turkmenistan

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Turkmen
Routledge:
  • Turkmenian
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
    Morphology
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Indefinite Pronouns Mixed
    Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th
    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 Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha