Votic
WALS coordinates: 59° 30′ N, 30° E
spoken in Russia
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
|---|---|
| Ruhlen: |
|
| Routledge: | |
| Other: | |
| ISO 639-3: |
Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Fixed Stress Locations | Initial | |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) | |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight | |
| Rhythm Types | Trochaic | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Mixed | |
| Ordinal Numerals | First, second, three-th | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Morphological Imperative | Second singular and second plural | |
| The Prohibitive | Special imperative + normal negative | |
| Imperative-Hortative Systems | Maximal system | |
| Situational Possibility | Verbal constructions | |
| Epistemic Possibility | Affixes on verbs | |
| Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking | No overlap | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | No dominant order | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Other | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Identical | |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Impossible | |
