Zuni

WALS coordinates: 35° 5′ N, 108° 50′ W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Zuni
Routledge:
Other:
  • Zuñi
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Average Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone No tones Phonology
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14A Fixed Stress Locations Initial Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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27A Reduplication No productive reduplication Morphology
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30A Number of Genders None Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment No gender Nominal Categories
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory Nominal Categories
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35A Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person stem + pronominal plural affix Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases No morphological case-marking Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense No inflectional future Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect No perfect Verbal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative present Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion Singular-plural pairs, no suppletion Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Neutral Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking No person marking Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Present Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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136A M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular No m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular No m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation Neg[V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] 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 ObligDoubleNeg 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 Beginning, not immed preverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144N Obligatory Double Negation in SOV languages NegSO[V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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