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

Ute

WALS coordinates: 39° N, 109° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Paiute (Southern)
Routledge:
    Other:
      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
      Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None
      Verbal Number and Suppletion Singular-plural pairs, suppletion
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
      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 NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Double negation
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      Purpose Clauses Deranked
      Reason Clauses Deranked
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different