1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Turkic

Tatar

WALS coordinates: 56° N, 49° 30′ E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tatar
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Volga Tatar,
    • Tatar (Volga)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    The Associative Plural Unique affixal associative plural
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th
    Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
    Numeral Classifiers Optional
    Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, without interrogative
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
    Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
    Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
    Epistemic Possibility Other
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha