Volume 6. Iranian languages. II. North-Western Iranian languages
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Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Iranian → Northwestern Iranian
Main country: Iran (show on the map)
[A‑11] | Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features | Opposition by presence and absence of voice [A‑11‑1] | ||
[A‑12] | Inventory of obstruents by manner of articulation | Plosives, fricatives and affricates [A‑12‑3] | ||
[A‑14] | Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation | Bilabial and labiodental [A‑14‑2] | ||
[A‑19] | Inventory of sonorants by manner of articulation | Nasal, liquid and vibrant [A‑19‑2] |
[B‑1] | Stress character | Non-phonological [B‑1‑3] | ||
[B‑2] | Stress type | Dynamic [B‑2‑1] | ||
[B‑3] | Stress carrier | Syllable [B‑3‑1] | ||
[B‑4] | Stress fixedness | Movable fixed [B‑4‑3] | ||
[B‑5] | Fixed stress carrier | First syllable or ultima [B‑5‑11] |
No filled features for this language.
[D‑6] | Differences between roots and affixes | Accentual differences [D‑6‑3] |
[E‑1] | Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word | Fusional [E‑1‑3] | ||
[E‑4] | Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion | Analytic with elements of synthetism [E‑4‑3] |
[F‑1] | Number of agreement classes | No agreement classes [F‑1‑1] | ||
[F‑7] | Nouns classifying categories | Absent [F‑7‑1] | ||
[F‑8] | Opposition by person/non-person | Lexical and morphological [F‑8‑4] |
[G‑1] | Number in nouns | Singular and plural [G‑1‑1] | ||
[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 | Decimal [G‑6‑1] |
[H‑1] | Number of noun cases | One-two [H‑1‑1] |
[I‑1] | Voice forms expression | Category of voice is absent [I‑1‑1] | ||
[I‑5] | Tense forms | Past [I‑5‑1] | ||
[I‑5] | Tense forms | Non-past [I‑5‑5] | ||
[I‑6] | Aspect and tense expression | Syncretic [I‑6‑2] | ||
[I‑9] | Marking of person in present tense verbs | In singular and plural [I‑9‑3] |
[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 | 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 | Absent [J‑5‑1] | ||
[J‑6] | Words expressing (in)definiteness | Numerals and pronouns [J‑6‑16] | ||
[J‑9] | Negation marker position | Preposition [J‑9‑3] |
[K‑1] | Personal pronouns inflection | Pronominal inflection type [K‑1‑3] | ||
[K‑2] | Article types | No articles [K‑2‑1] | ||
[K‑3] | Indefinite article and numeral 'one' | Same [K‑3‑1] | ||
[K‑7] | Number of conjugation types | Three types of conjugation [K‑7‑3] | ||
[K‑8] | Verb agreement types | Subject [K‑8‑2] | ||
[K‑10] | Tense expressed by participle | Past [K‑10‑4] | ||
[K‑12] | Agreement categories expressed in adjective | Absent [K‑12‑1] | ||
[K‑16] | Inflectional categories of noun | (In)definiteness and number [K‑16‑8] | ||
[K‑18] | Inflection means | Internal flection and affixes [K‑18‑5] | ||
[K‑19] | Word form model | Prefixal-suffixal [K‑19‑1] |
[L‑1] | Word formation means | Derivation [L‑1‑6] | ||
[L‑2] | Derivation affixes | Prefixes and suffixes [L‑2‑3] |
[M‑3] | Dominant word order | SOV [M‑3‑2] |
[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] |