1. Family: Mixe-Zoque
  2. Genus: Mixe-Zoque

Zoque (Ostuacan)

WALS coordinates: 17° 25′ N, 93° 18′ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Zoque
Routledge:
  • Sokean
Other:
  • Ostuacan Zoque
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing Morphology
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb Other Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages NegV & VS & VO Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object None Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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