1. Family: Austro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Mon-Khmer
  3. Genus: Aslian

Temiar

WALS coordinates: 5° N, 101° 30′ E

spoken in Malaysia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Temiar
Routledge:
    Other:
    • N. Sakai,
    • Sakai,
    • Northern Sakai,
    • N Sakai
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
    Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    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 Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
    Passive Constructions Absent
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns