1. Family: Uto-Aztecan
  2. Genus: Tepiman

Tepehuan (Northern)

WALS coordinates: 26° 20′ N, 107° W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tepehuan (Northern)
Routledge:
  • Tepahue (Northern)
Other:
  • N Tepehuan,
  • Northern Tepehuan,
  • N. Tepehuan
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
Definite Articles Definite affix
Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
Indefinite Pronouns Mixed
Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect Aspect
Verbal Number and Suppletion Singular-plural pairs, suppletion
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Postpositions
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 Other
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed
Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
Passive Constructions Present
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
Polar Questions Question particle