1. Family: Altaic
  2. Genus: Turkic

Yakut

WALS coordinates: 62° N, 130° E

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yakut
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Average
      Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals
      The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
      Front Rounded Vowels High and mid
      Syllable Structure Complex
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Number of Genders None
      Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender
      Systems of Gender Assignment No gender
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
      Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
      Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, without interrogative
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
      Coding of Evidentiality Part of the tense system
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
      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
      Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Predicative Possession Locational
      Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
      Lexicon
      Numeral Bases Decimal
      Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha