Uyghur

WALS coordinates: 40° N, 80° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Uighur
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Uighur,
    • Uigur
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th
    Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
    The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
    The Future Tense No inflectional future
    The Perfect Other perfect
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    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 Obligatory pronouns in subject position
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Lexicon
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha