Moghol language †

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Mogholi

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Genealogy

Altaic → Mongolic

Geography

Main country: Afghanistan (show on the map)

Identifiers

Glottolog: mogh1245
ISO-639-3: mhj

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 and back [A‑3‑2]
[A‑5]	Vowel opposition in labialization	No vowel opposition in labialization [A‑5‑1]
[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‑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, guttural and postuvular [A‑13‑2]
[A‑14]	Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation	Bilabial and labiodental [A‑14‑2]
[A‑15]	Inventory of coronal obstruents by place of articulation	Alveolar and postalveolar [A‑15‑16]
[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 glottal [A‑17‑2]
[A‑18]	Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents	Absent [A‑18‑1]
[A‑19]	Inventory of sonorants by manner of articulation	Nasal, liquid and vibrant [A‑19‑2]
[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]

Prosodic phenomena

[B‑1]	Stress character	Non-phonological [B‑1‑3]
[B‑4]	Stress fixedness	Single-place fixed [B‑4‑1]
[B‑5]	Fixed stress carrier	Ultima [B‑5‑4]
[B‑9]	Length character	Non-phonological [B‑9‑2]

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

No filled features for this language.

Morphological type of language

[E‑1]

Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word

Agglutinative with some fusional features [E‑1‑2]

Nominal classifications

[F‑1]	Number of agreement classes	No agreement classes [F‑1‑1]
[F‑7]	Nouns classifying categories	Absent [F‑7‑1]

Number

[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]

Case meanings

[H‑1]	Number of noun cases	Three-seven [H‑1‑2]
[H‑4]	Case marking of possessive relations	Genitive [H‑4‑1]

Verbal categories

[I‑1]	Voice forms expression	Affixes [I‑1‑4]
[I‑8]	Syncretic expression of several verb meanings	Person and number [I‑8‑4]

Deictic categories

[J‑8]	Expression of negation	Negative particles and negative verbs [J‑8‑7]
[J‑9]	Negation marker position	Preposition [J‑9‑3]

Parts of speech and inflection

[K‑2]	Article types	No articles [K‑2‑1]
[K‑8]	Verb agreement types	Subject [K‑8‑2]
[K‑14]	Attribute agreement of adjectives	Absent [K‑14‑2]
[K‑18]	Inflection means	Affixes [K‑18‑2]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4]

Word formation

[L‑1]	Word formation means	Derivation [L‑1‑6]
[L‑2]	Derivation affixes	Suffixes [L‑2‑2]

Simple sentence

[M‑2]	Word order fixedness	Non-fixed [M‑2‑2]
[M‑3]	Dominant word order	SOV [M‑3‑2]
[M‑4]	Order of nouns and its modifier	Modifier precedes noun [M‑4‑1]

Complex sentence

No filled features for this language.

Unfilled features

The encyclopedia contains no information

[A-210] Opposition in openness/closedness for vowel height degrees
[A-4] Number of length degrees
[A-10] Types of diphthongs
[A-11] Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features
[A-220] Inventory of fricatives by place of articulation
[B-2] Stress type
[B-3] Stress carrier
[B-6] Number of tone levels
[B-7] Contour tone characteristics
[B-8] Tone carrier
[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-1] Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the initial position
[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-5] Attributive agreement in gender
[F-6] Agreement of cardinal numerals in gender
[F-8] Opposition by person/non-person
[F-9] Expression of animacy/inanimacy
[G-3] Honorific forms in pronouns and verbs
[G-6] Numeral system
[H-2] Subject and object marking
[H-3] Case of nominal predicate
[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-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-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
[K-1] Personal pronouns inflection
[K-3] Indefinite article and numeral 'one'
[K-7] Number of conjugation 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-15] Attributive agreement types
[K-16] Inflectional categories of noun
[K-17] Cumulative expression of several categories in noun
[L-3] Stems relations in stem compounding
[M-1] Morphosyntactic alignment
[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

Feature is not applicable to this language

[F-2] Morphological expression of agreement classes
[F-3] Syntactic expression of agreement classes
[F-4] Other means of expressing agreement classes
[K-4] Article place
[K-5] Position of article in noun phrase
[K-6] Grammar categories of article