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

Tarahumara (Western)

WALS coordinates: 27° 30′ N, 108° W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tarahumara
Routledge:
  • Tarahumara
Other:
  • Rocoroibo,
  • Western Tarahumara,
  • W. Tarahumara,
  • W Tarahumara
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order
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 Mixed
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions Question particle
Lexicon
Numeral Bases Decimal
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5
Green and Blue Green/blue
Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow