Family: Altaic
Genus: Turkic

Tatar

WALS coordinates: 56° N, 49° 30′ E

spoken in Russia

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Tatar
Ruhlen:	Tatar
Routledge:
Other:	Volga Tatar, Tatar (Volga)
ISO 639-3:	tat (article in Wikipedia)

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
9A	The Velar Nasal	No initial velar nasal	Phonology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing	Morphology	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix	Nominal Categories	comment
36A	The Associative Plural	Unique affixal associative plural	Nominal Categories	comment
37A	Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article	Nominal Categories	comment
38A	Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article	Nominal Categories	comment
46A	Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
53A	Ordinal Numerals	One-th, two-th, three-th	Nominal Categories	comment
54A	Distributive Numerals	Marked by suffix	Nominal Categories	comment
55A	Numeral Classifiers	Optional	Nominal Categories	comment
56A	Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers	Formally similar, without interrogative	Nominal Categories	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
60A	Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses	Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed	Nominal Syntax	comment
61A	Adjectives without Nouns	Without marking	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	Normal imperative + normal negative	Verbal Categories	comment
72A	Imperative-Hortative Systems	Maximal system	Verbal Categories	comment
74A	Situational Possibility	Verbal constructions	Verbal Categories	comment
75A	Epistemic Possibility	Other	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
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	Adjective-Noun	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun	Word Order	comment
90A	Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Relative clause-Noun	Word Order	comment
90B	Prenominal relative clauses	Relative clause-Noun (RelN) dominant	Word Order	comment
91A	Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective	Word Order	comment
94A	Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word	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 RelN	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN	Word Order	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Question particle	Simple Clauses	comment
118A	Predicative Adjectives	Nonverbal encoding	Simple Clauses	comment
119A	Nominal and Locational Predication	Identical	Simple Clauses	comment
120A	Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible	Simple Clauses	comment
129A	Hand and Arm	Identical	Lexicon	comment examples
130A	Finger and Hand	Different	Lexicon	comment examples
138A	Tea	Words derived from Sinitic cha	Lexicon	comment examples