Uyghur

WALS coordinates: 40° N, 80° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

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