1. Family: Penutian
  2. Genus: Yokuts

Wikchamni

WALS coordinates: 36° 25′ N, 119° 5′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yokuts (Valley)
Routledge:
  • Yokutsan
Other:
  • Wikchamni (Yokuts),
  • Yokuts (Wikchamni),
  • Yokuts (Valley)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal 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
Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
Nominal Syntax
Action Nominal Constructions Possessive-Accusative
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
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 Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Neutral
Verbal Person Marking No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions Present
Polar Questions Question particle