Yucatec
WALS coordinates: 20° N, 89° W
spoken in Mexico
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives and implosives | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Tone | Simple tone system | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Morphology | ||
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns | No politeness distinction | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Identity | |
| Numeral Classifiers | Obligatory | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | Grammatical marking | |
| The Past Tense | No past tense | |
| The Future Tense | No inflectional future | |
| The Perfect | No perfect | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Identical | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| Numeral Bases | Pure vigesimal | |
