1. Family: Mayan
  2. Genus: Mayan

Tzutujil

WALS coordinates: 14° 40′ N, 91° 20′ W

spoken in Guatemala

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tzutujil
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns and nouns
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists
      Possessive Classification Three to five classes
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Mixed
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
      Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      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 VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Ergative
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
      Passive Constructions Present
      Antipassive Constructions Oblique patient
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation No predicate negation
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Predicative Possession Topic
      Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly
      Purpose Clauses Deranked
      'When' Clauses Balanced
      Reason Clauses Balanced
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns