Zazaki
WALS coordinates: 39° N, 41° E
spoken in Turkey
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Nominal Categories | ||
| Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | All nouns, always obligatory | |
| Indefinite Pronouns | Special | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Identity | |
| Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Morphological Imperative | Second singular and second plural | |
| The Prohibitive | Special imperative + special negative | |
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| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | |
| Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation | Symmetric | |
| Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation | Non-assignable | |
| Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation | Predicate negation also present | |
| Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Identical | |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Impossible | |
