Kati language

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Kamkata-Vari, Bashgali

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Volume 8. Dardic and Nuristani languages
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Main country: Afghanistan (show on the map)

[A‑1]	Number of degrees of vowel height	Four [A‑1‑3]
[A‑2]	Vowel height degrees	Close, mid-close, mid-open, and open [A‑2‑6]
[A‑3]	Degrees of vowel backness	Front, central and back [A‑3‑4]
[A‑4]	Number of length degrees	No length degrees [A‑4‑1]
[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 laryngeal [A‑17‑4]
[A‑18]	Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents	By labialization [A‑18‑2]
[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, dorsal and guttural [A‑20‑17]
[A‑21]	Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants	Absent [A‑21‑1]

No filled features for this language.

[D‑1]	Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the initial position	No restrictions [D‑1‑1]
[D‑2]	Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position	No consonant clusters [D‑2‑7]
[D‑4]	Differences between content and function words	No differences [D‑4‑1]
[D‑5]	Differences between native and borrowed words	Differences in phonetic structure [D‑5‑2]
[D‑6]	Differences between roots and affixes	No differences [D‑6‑1]
[D‑7]	Functional type of alternations	Distinctive [D‑7‑3]
[D‑8]	Type of altenations	Vowel and consonant alternations [D‑8‑6]

[E‑1]	Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word	Fusional with some agglutinative features [E‑1‑4]
[E‑4]	Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion	Synthetic with elements of analytism [E‑4‑6]

[F‑1]	Number of agreement classes	Two [F‑1‑2]
[F‑5]	Attributive agreement in gender	Only in singular [F‑5‑1]
[F‑6]	Agreement of cardinal numerals in gender	Absent [F‑6‑1]
[F‑7]	Nouns classifying categories	Person/non-person [F‑7‑2]
[F‑8]	Opposition by person/non-person	Lexical and morphological [F‑8‑4]
[F‑9]	Expression of animacy/inanimacy	Lexical [F‑9‑1]

[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 and plural [G‑5‑3]
[G‑6]	Numeral system	Vigesimal [G‑6‑6]

[H‑1]	Number of noun cases	One-two [H‑1‑1]
[H‑4]	Case marking of possessive relations	Oblique [H‑4‑5]
[H‑8]	Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns	Same [H‑8‑1]
[H‑9]	Secondary cases	Absent [H‑9‑2]

[I‑5]	Tense forms	Past [I‑5‑1]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Present [I‑5‑2]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Future [I‑5‑3]
[I‑6]	Aspect and tense expression	Syncretic [I‑6‑2]
[I‑8]	Syncretic expression of several verb meanings	Person, number, gender, tense, aspect, and modality (mood) [I‑8‑19]
[I‑9]	Marking of person in present tense verbs	In singular and plural [I‑9‑3]
[I‑10]	Transitivity marker	Special type of agreement [I‑10‑5]

[J‑1]	Pronominal words	Pronouns-nouns and pronouns-adjectives [J‑1‑11]
[J‑3]	Function words expressing spatial orientation of action	Adpositions [J‑3‑9]
[J‑4]	Content words expressing spatial orientation of action	Pronouns and adverbs [J‑4‑6]
[J‑5]	Morphological expression of (in)definiteness	Different cases for definite and indefinite objects [J‑5‑10]
[J‑6]	Words expressing (in)definiteness	Numerals and pronouns [J‑6‑16]
[J‑8]	Expression of negation	Negative particles and negative affixes [J‑8‑9]
[J‑9]	Negation marker position	Preposition and postposition [J‑9‑9]

[K‑2]	Article types	No articles [K‑2‑1]
[K‑8]	Verb agreement types	Subject and object [K‑8‑3]
[K‑9]	Agreement categories expressed in participle	Gender, number and case [K‑9‑7]
[K‑10]	Tense expressed by participle	Past and future [K‑10‑7]
[K‑11]	Adverb grammar categories	Absent [K‑11‑1]
[K‑12]	Agreement categories expressed in adjective	Gender [K‑12‑5]
[K‑13]	Cumulative expression of several categories in adjective	Absent [K‑13‑1]
[K‑14]	Attribute agreement of adjectives	Always present [K‑14‑1]
[K‑15]	Attributive agreement types	In gender [K‑15‑4]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4]

[L‑2]

Derivation affixes

Prefixes and suffixes [L‑2‑3]

[M‑1]	Morphosyntactic alignment	Nominative and ergative [M‑1‑10]
[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	Modifier precedes noun [M‑4‑1]

[N‑3]	Dependent clause predicate	Finite forms [N‑3‑1]
[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]