1. Family: Penutian
  2. Genus: Yokuts

Yokuts (Yaudanchi)

WALS coordinates: 36° 5′ N, 119° 5′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yokutsan
Routledge:
  • Yokutsan
Other:
  • Yaudanchi Yokuts,
  • Yaudanchi
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
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 VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle