Zapotec (Yatzachi)

WALS coordinates: 17° 11′ 60.00″ N, 96° 12′ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Definite Articles	Definite affix
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Mixed
Ordinal Numerals	First/one-th, two-th, three-th
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes
Situational Possibility	Verbal constructions
Epistemic Possibility	Affixes on verbs
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking	No overlap
Word 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	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
Polar Questions	Question particle