Zapotec (Mitla)

WALS coordinates: 16° 48′ N, 96° 15′ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural prefix
Position of Case Affixes	Case prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	VSO
Order of Subject and Verb	VS
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Mixed
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 NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Asymmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/NonReal and A/Cat
Polar Questions	Question particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different