Family: Tunica
Genus: Tunica

Tunica

WALS coordinates: 32° 40′ N, 91° W

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Tunica
Ruhlen:	Tunica
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ISO 639-3:	tun (article in Wikipedia)

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Moderately small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately low	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals	Phonology	comment
9A	The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal	Phonology	comment
10A	Vowel Nasalization	Contrast absent	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
14A	Fixed Stress Locations	Initial	Phonology	comment
15A	Weight-Sensitive Stress	Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)	Phonology	comment
16A	Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	No weight	Phonology	comment
17A	Rhythm Types	No rhythmic stress	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
23A	Locus of Marking in the Clause	Head marking	Morphology	comment
24A	Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	Head marking	Morphology	comment
25A	Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology	Head-marking	Morphology	comment
25B	Zero Marking of A and P Arguments	Non-zero marking	Morphology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing	Morphology	comment
28A	Case Syncretism	No case marking	Morphology	comment
29A	Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking	Not syncretic	Morphology	comment
30A	Number of Genders	Two	Nominal Categories	comment
31A	Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	Sex-based	Nominal Categories	comment
32A	Systems of Gender Assignment	Semantic	Nominal Categories	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix	Nominal Categories	comment
35A	Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number affixes	Nominal Categories	comment
39A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns	No inclusive/exclusive	Nominal Categories	comment
40A	Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection	No inclusive/exclusive	Nominal Categories	comment
43A	Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Unrelated	Nominal Categories	comment examples
44A	Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person	Nominal Categories	comment
46A	Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based	Nominal Categories	comment
48A	Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking	Nominal Categories	comment
49A	Number of Cases	Exclusively borderline case-marking	Nominal Categories	comment
50A	Asymmetrical Case-Marking	Symmetrical	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
55A	Numeral Classifiers	Absent	Nominal Categories	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes	Nominal Categories	comment
58A	Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Exists	Nominal Syntax	comment
58B	Number of Possessive Nouns	None reported	Nominal Syntax	comment
59A	Possessive Classification	Two classes	Nominal Syntax	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes	Verbal Categories	comment
70A	The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural	Verbal Categories	comment
71A	The Prohibitive	Special imperative + special negative	Verbal Categories	comment
73A	The Optative	Inflectional optative absent	Verbal Categories	comment
74A	Situational Possibility	Verbal constructions	Verbal Categories	comment
77A	Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Indirect only	Verbal Categories	comment
78A	Coding of Evidentiality	Verbal affix or clitic	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	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
85A	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective	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	Adjective-Degree word	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle	Word Order	comment
94A	Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Subordinating suffix	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 NAdj	Word Order	comment
98A	Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases	Neutral	Simple Clauses	comment examples
99A	Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns	Neutral	Simple Clauses	comment examples
100A	Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Active	Simple Clauses	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
102A	Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments	Simple Clauses	comment
103A	Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No zero realization	Simple Clauses	comment
104A	Order of Person Markers on the Verb	P precedes A	Simple Clauses	comment
107A	Passive Constructions	Absent	Simple Clauses	comment
111A	Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Both	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative affix	Simple Clauses	comment
113A	Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Both	Simple Clauses	comment
114A	Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/Cat	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology	Simple Clauses	comment examples
129A	Hand and Arm	Different	Lexicon	comment examples
130A	Finger and Hand	Identical	Lexicon	comment
130B	Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand'	Farmer-foragers	Lexicon	comment
136A	M-T Pronouns	No M-T pronouns	Lexicon	comment
136B	M in First Person Singular	No m in first person singular	Lexicon	comment
137A	N-M Pronouns	N-M pronouns, non-paradigmatic	Lexicon	comment
137B	M in Second Person Singular	m in second person singular	Lexicon	comment
138A	Tea	Others	Lexicon	comment examples
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	[V-Neg]	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	[V-Neg]	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	MorphNeg	Word Order	comment
144L	The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages	SO[V-Neg]	Word Order	comment
144P	NegSOV Order	No NegSOV	Word Order	comment
144Q	SNegOV Order	No SNegOV	Word Order	comment
144R	SONegV Order	No SONegV	Word Order	comment
144S	SOVNeg Order	Suffix&NoDoubleNeg	Word Order	comment