Ormuri language

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Oormuri, Urmuri, Ormur, Ormui

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Volume 6. Iranian languages. II. North-Western Iranian languages
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Main country: Pakistan (show on the map)

[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‑4]	Number of length degrees	Two [A‑4‑2]
[A‑5]	Vowel opposition in labialization	Present for all vowels [A‑5‑11]
[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‑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 and dorsal [A‑20‑14]
[A‑21]	Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants	Absent [A‑21‑1]

[B‑1]	Stress character	Phonological and non-phonological [B‑1‑4]
[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‑9]	Length character	Phonological and non-phonological [B‑9‑4]

[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	Limited set of consonants possible [D‑1‑4]
[D‑2]	Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position	Limited set of vowels and consonants possible [D‑2‑8]
[D‑4]	Differences between content and function words	Differences in phonetic structure, in syllable structure and accentual differences [D‑4‑7]
[D‑5]	Differences between native and borrowed words	Differences in phonetic structure [D‑5‑2]
[D‑6]	Differences between roots and affixes	Differences in phonetic structure, in syllable structure and accentuation [D‑6‑6]
[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‑2]	Fusional type features	Internal flection [E‑2‑1]
[E‑3]	Agglutinative type features	One flection can only express one meaning [E‑3‑1]
[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‑3]	Syntactic expression of agreement classes	Pronouns, adjectives, and verbs [F‑3‑9]
[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, morphological and syntactic [F‑8‑7]
[F‑9]	Expression of animacy/inanimacy	Lexical and syntactic [F‑9‑4]

[G‑1]	Number in nouns	Singular and plural [G‑1‑1]
[G‑2]	Single number marking	Marked [G‑2‑1]
[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 with elements of vigesimal [G‑6‑3]

[H‑1]

Number of noun cases

No case [H‑1‑6]

[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]
[I‑10]	Transitivity marker	Affix and special type of agreement [I‑10‑8]

[J‑1]	Pronominal words	Pronominal adverbs, adjectives and nouns [J‑1‑10]
[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‑6]	Words expressing (in)definiteness	Articles, pronouns and numerals [J‑6‑21]
[J‑8]	Expression of negation	Prohibitive and negative particles [J‑8‑8]
[J‑9]	Negation marker position	Preposition [J‑9‑3]

[K‑1]	Personal pronouns inflection	Pronominal inflection type [K‑1‑3]
[K‑2]	Article types	Definite and indefinite [K‑2‑4]
[K‑4]	Article place	Preposition and postposition [K‑4‑3]
[K‑7]	Number of conjugation types	Two types of conjugation [K‑7‑2]
[K‑8]	Verb agreement types	Subject and object [K‑8‑3]
[K‑11]	Adverb grammar categories	Absent [K‑11‑1]
[K‑12]	Agreement categories expressed in adjective	Gender [K‑12‑5]
[K‑14]	Attribute agreement of adjectives	Only in preposition [K‑14‑3]
[K‑15]	Attributive agreement types	In gender [K‑15‑4]
[K‑16]	Inflectional categories of noun	(In)definiteness and number [K‑16‑8]
[K‑17]	Cumulative expression of several categories in noun	Number and gender / agreement class [K‑17‑7]

[L‑2]

Derivation affixes

Prefixes and suffixes [L‑2‑3]

[M‑1]	Morphosyntactic alignment	Accusative with elements of ergativity [M‑1‑7]
[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]