Tsez
WALS coordinates: 42° 15′ N, 45° 45′ E
spoken in Russia
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Number of Genders | Four | |
| Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | Sex-based | |
| Systems of Gender Assignment | Semantic and formal | |
| The Associative Plural | Unique affixal associative plural | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Optative | Inflectional optative present | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | |
| Antipassive Constructions | Oblique patient | |
| Applicative Constructions | No applicative construction | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Numeral Bases | Hybrid vigesimal-decimal | |
| Other | ||
| Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks | Logical meanings | |
