Mitanni Indo-Aryan language †

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Volume 20. Relict Indo-European languages of the West and Central Asia
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Genealogy

Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Indo-Aryan

Geography

Main country: Turkey (show on the map)

Features

Phonemic structure

[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, central and back [A‑3‑4]
[A‑4]	Number of length degrees	Two [A‑4‑2]
[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 voice presence/absence and by aspiration [A‑11‑6]
[A‑12]	Inventory of obstruents by manner of articulation	Plosives, fricatives and affricates [A‑12‑3]
[A‑13]	Inventory of obstruents by place of articulation	Labial, coronal, dorsal and guttural [A‑13‑3]
[A‑15]	Inventory of coronal obstruents by place of articulation	Dental [A‑15‑1]
[A‑16]	Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation	Velar [A‑16‑1]
[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]

Prosodic phenomena

No filled features for this language.

Syllable

[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]

Phonologic structure and phenomena

[D‑1]

Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the initial position

No restrictions [D‑1‑1]

Morphological type of language

[E‑1]

Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word

Fusional [E‑1‑3]

Nominal classifications

No filled features for this language.

Number

[G‑1]	Number in nouns	Singular and plural [G‑1‑1]
[G‑6]	Numeral system	Decimal [G‑6‑1]

Case meanings

[H‑3]	Case of nominal predicate	Genitive [H‑3‑2]
[H‑4]	Case marking of possessive relations	Genitive [H‑4‑1]

Verbal categories

No filled features for this language.

Deictic categories

No filled features for this language.

Parts of speech and inflection

No filled features for this language.

Word formation

No filled features for this language.

Simple sentence

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Complex sentence

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Unfilled features

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[A-210] Opposition in openness/closedness for vowel height degrees
[A-5] Vowel opposition in labialization
[A-6] Vowel opposition in nasalization
[A-7] Vowel opposition in pharyngealization
[A-8] Vowel opposition in ATR
[A-14] Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation
[A-17] Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation
[A-18] Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents
[A-21] Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants
[A-220] Inventory of fricatives by place of articulation
[B-1] Stress character
[B-2] Stress type
[B-3] Stress carrier
[B-4] Stress fixedness
[B-5] Fixed stress carrier
[B-6] Number of tone levels
[B-7] Contour tone characteristics
[B-8] Tone carrier
[B-9] Length character
[B-10] Target of vowel harmony
[B-11] Feature of vowel harmony
[B-12] Trigger of vowel harmony
[B-13] Other suprasegmental phenomena
[B-14] Types of phonation
[D-2] Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position
[D-3] Characteristics of the syllabic structure of words
[D-4] Differences between content and function words
[D-5] Differences between native and borrowed words
[D-6] Differences between roots and affixes
[D-7] Functional type of alternations
[D-8] Type of altenations
[E-2] Fusional type features
[E-3] Agglutinative type features
[E-4] Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion
[F-1] Number of agreement classes
[F-2] Morphological expression of agreement classes
[F-3] Syntactic expression of agreement classes
[F-4] Other means of expressing agreement classes
[F-5] Attributive agreement in gender
[F-6] Agreement of cardinal numerals in gender
[F-7] Nouns classifying categories
[F-8] Opposition by person/non-person
[F-9] Expression of animacy/inanimacy
[G-2] Single number marking
[G-3] Honorific forms in pronouns and verbs
[G-4] Agreement in number
[G-5] Form of a noun in numeral phrases
[H-1] Number of noun cases
[H-2] Subject and object marking
[H-5] Other means of expressing possessive relations
[H-6] Means of expressing spatial relations
[H-7] Dependent nouns in possessive constructions
[H-8] Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns
[H-9] Secondary cases
[I-1] Voice forms expression
[I-2] Voice stacking in the same verb form
[I-3] Double voice forms
[I-4] Voice forms coincidence
[I-5] Tense forms
[I-6] Aspect and tense expression
[I-7] Expression of tense categories
[I-8] Syncretic expression of several verb meanings
[I-9] Marking of person in present tense verbs
[I-10] Transitivity marker
[J-1] Pronominal words
[J-2] Expression of deictic categories
[J-3] Function words expressing spatial orientation of action
[J-4] Content words expressing spatial orientation of action
[J-5] Morphological expression of (in)definiteness
[J-6] Words expressing (in)definiteness
[J-7] Expression of politeness
[J-8] Expression of negation
[J-9] Negation marker position
[K-1] Personal pronouns inflection
[K-2] Article types
[K-3] Indefinite article and numeral 'one'
[K-4] Article place
[K-5] Position of article in noun phrase
[K-6] Grammar categories of article
[K-7] Number of conjugation types
[K-8] Verb agreement types
[K-9] Agreement categories expressed in participle
[K-10] Tense expressed by participle
[K-11] Adverb grammar categories
[K-12] Agreement categories expressed in adjective
[K-13] Cumulative expression of several categories in adjective
[K-14] Attribute agreement of adjectives
[K-15] Attributive agreement types
[K-16] Inflectional categories of noun
[K-17] Cumulative expression of several categories in noun
[K-18] Inflection means
[K-19] Word form model
[L-1] Word formation means
[L-2] Derivation affixes
[L-3] Stems relations in stem compounding
[M-1] Morphosyntactic alignment
[M-2] Word order fixedness
[M-3] Dominant word order
[M-4] Order of nouns and its modifier
[M-5] Pro-drop
[N-1] Clauses order in compound sentence
[N-2] Dependent clause distinctions in complex sentences
[N-3] Dependent clause predicate
[N-4] Compound sentence types
[N-5] Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton