Volume 5. Iranian languages. I. South-Western Iranian languages
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Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Iranian → Southwestern Iranian
Main country: Afghanistan (show on the map)
Map designer: Yuri Koryakov
[A‑1] | Number of degrees of vowel height | Three [A‑1‑2] | ||
[A‑2] | Vowel height degrees | Close, mid and open [A‑2‑3] | ||
[A‑3] | Degrees of vowel backness | Front and back [A‑3‑2] | ||
[A‑4] | Number of length degrees | Two [A‑4‑2] | ||
[A‑5] | Vowel opposition in labialization | Present for back vowels [A‑5‑4] | ||
[A‑6] | Vowel opposition in nasalization | No vowel opposition in nasalization [A‑6‑1] | ||
[A‑7] | Vowel opposition in pharyngealization | No vowel opposition in pharyngealization [A‑7‑1] | ||
[A‑8] | Vowel opposition in ATR | No vowel opposition in ATR [A‑8‑1] | ||
[A‑9] | Diphthongs and triphthongs | Only diphthongs present [A‑9‑2] | ||
[A‑10] | Types of diphthongs | Falling (descending) [A‑10‑2] | ||
[A‑11] | Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features | Opposition by presence and absence of voice [A‑11‑1] | ||
[A‑13] | Inventory of obstruents by place of articulation | Labial, coronal, dorsal, guttural and postuvular [A‑13‑2] | ||
[A‑14] | Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation | Bilabial and labiodental [A‑14‑2] | ||
[A‑16] | Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation | Velar and uvular [A‑16‑5] | ||
[A‑17] | Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation | Only pharyngeal [A‑17‑1] | ||
[A‑19] | Inventory of sonorants by manner of articulation | Nasal, liquid, vibrant and glide [A‑19‑6] | ||
[A‑20] | Inventory of sonorants by place of articulation | Labial, coronal and dorsal [A‑20‑14] |
[B‑2] | Stress type | Dynamic [B‑2‑1] | ||
[B‑3] | Stress carrier | Syllable [B‑3‑1] | ||
[B‑5] | Fixed stress carrier | First syllable or ultima [B‑5‑11] | ||
[B‑6] | Number of tone levels | No tones [B‑6‑4] | ||
[B‑9] | Length character | Phonological [B‑9‑1] | ||
[B‑10] | Target of vowel harmony | Phoneme [B‑10‑1] | ||
[B‑11] | Feature of vowel harmony | Height [B‑11‑3] |
[C‑1] | Syllable onset | Both null and non-null onset possible [C‑1‑5] | ||
[C‑2] | Syllable coda | Both null and non-null ocoda possible [C‑2‑5] |
[D‑1] | Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the initial position | No consonant clusters [D‑1‑6] | ||
[D‑2] | Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position | No clusters of more than two consonants [D‑2‑12] | ||
[D‑4] | Differences between content and function words | No differences [D‑4‑1] | ||
[D‑7] | Functional type of alternations | Accompanying and distinctive [D‑7‑4] | ||
[D‑8] | Type of altenations | Vowel, consonant, and phoneme complex alternations [D‑8‑11] |
[E‑1] | Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word | Fusional with some agglutinative features [E‑1‑4] | ||
[E‑3] | Agglutinative type features | One flection can only express one meaning, single inflection/conjugation type, no phonetic alternations in morphemes, basic form bare stem [E‑3‑6] | ||
[E‑4] | Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion | Synthetic with elements of analytism [E‑4‑6] |
[F‑1] | Number of agreement classes | No agreement classes [F‑1‑1] | ||
[F‑7] | Nouns classifying categories | Person/non-person and animacy/inanimacy [F‑7‑4] | ||
[F‑8] | Opposition by person/non-person | Lexical and syntactic [F‑8‑5] | ||
[F‑9] | Expression of animacy/inanimacy | Lexical, morphological, and syntactic [F‑9‑7] |
[G‑1] | Number in nouns | Singular and plural [G‑1‑1] | ||
[G‑2] | Single number marking | Unmarked [G‑2‑2] | ||
[G‑4] | Agreement in number | Predicative [G‑4‑2] | ||
[G‑5] | Form of a noun in numeral phrases | Singular [G‑5‑1] | ||
[G‑6] | Numeral system | Decimal with elements of vigesimal [G‑6‑3] |
[H‑1] | Number of noun cases | No case [H‑1‑6] | ||
[H‑6] | Means of expressing spatial relations | Demonstrative pronouns, adverbs, and prepositions [H‑6‑40] |
[I‑2] | Voice stacking in the same verb form | Absent [I‑2‑2] | ||
[I‑5] | Tense forms | Past [I‑5‑1] | ||
[I‑5] | Tense forms | Non-past [I‑5‑5] | ||
[I‑6] | Aspect and tense expression | Separate and syncretic [I‑6‑3] | ||
[I‑8] | Syncretic expression of several verb meanings | Person, number, tense, aspect, and modality (mood) [I‑8‑17] | ||
[I‑9] | Marking of person in present tense verbs | In singular and plural [I‑9‑3] | ||
[I‑10] | Transitivity marker | Affix [I‑10‑2] |
[J‑1] | Pronominal words | Pronouns-nouns and pronouns-adjectives [J‑1‑11] | ||
[J‑2] | Expression of deictic categories | Demonstrative pronouns, postpositions and adverbs [J‑2‑17] | ||
[J‑3] | Function words expressing spatial orientation of action | Prepositions [J‑3‑3] | ||
[J‑4] | Content words expressing spatial orientation of action | Pronouns and adverbs [J‑4‑6] | ||
[J‑6] | Words expressing (in)definiteness | Postpositions, pronouns and numerals [J‑6‑18] | ||
[J‑8] | Expression of negation | Negative particles [J‑8‑3] | ||
[J‑9] | Negation marker position | Preposition [J‑9‑3] |
[K‑1] | Personal pronouns inflection | Pronouns are not inflected [K‑1‑1] | ||
[K‑2] | Article types | No articles [K‑2‑1] | ||
[K‑7] | Number of conjugation types | Single type of conjugation [K‑7‑1] | ||
[K‑8] | Verb agreement types | Subject [K‑8‑2] | ||
[K‑9] | Agreement categories expressed in participle | Absent [K‑9‑1] | ||
[K‑10] | Tense expressed by participle | Present, past and future [K‑10‑10] | ||
[K‑12] | Agreement categories expressed in adjective | Absent [K‑12‑1] | ||
[K‑13] | Cumulative expression of several categories in adjective | Absent [K‑13‑1] | ||
[K‑14] | Attribute agreement of adjectives | Absent [K‑14‑2] | ||
[K‑15] | Attributive agreement types | No attributive agreement [K‑15‑1] | ||
[K‑17] | Cumulative expression of several categories in noun | Absent [K‑17‑1] | ||
[K‑19] | Word form model | Prefixal-suffixal [K‑19‑1] |
[L‑1] | Word formation means | Derivation and compounding [L‑1‑12] | ||
[L‑2] | Derivation affixes | Prefixes and suffixes [L‑2‑3] |
[M‑2] | Word order fixedness | Relatively free [M‑2‑3] | ||
[M‑3] | Dominant word order | SOV [M‑3‑2] | ||
[M‑4] | Order of nouns and its modifier | Preposition or postposition [M‑4‑4] |
[N‑4] | Compound sentence types | Subordination and compounding [N‑4‑4] | ||
[N‑5] | Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton | Both syndesis and asyndeton possible [N‑5‑3] |