Parachi language

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Volume 6. Iranian languages. II. North-Western Iranian 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, close-mid, mid and open [A‑2‑4]
[A‑3]	Degrees of vowel backness	Front, neutral and back [A‑3‑7]
[A‑6]	Vowel opposition in nasalization	Present for neutral and back vowels [A‑6‑7]
[A‑11]	Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features	Opposition by voice presence/absence and by aspiration [A‑11‑6]
[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	Absent [A‑18‑1]
[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]
[A‑21]	Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants	By aspiration [A‑21‑19]

[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	No consonant clusters [D‑1‑6]
[D‑2]	Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position	No restrictions [D‑2‑1]
[D‑3]	Characteristics of the syllabic structure of words	Mostly monosyllabic and bisyllabic words [D‑3‑5]
[D‑4]	Differences between content and function words	Differences in accentuation [D‑4‑3]
[D‑5]	Differences between native and borrowed words	Differences in phonetic structure, in syllable structure and in accentuation [D‑5‑7]
[D‑6]	Differences between roots and affixes	Accentual differences [D‑6‑3]
[D‑7]	Functional type of alternations	Accompanying and distinctive [D‑7‑4]
[D‑8]	Type of altenations	Vowel and consonant alternations [D‑8‑6]

[E‑4]

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	Person/non-person and animacy/inanimacy [F‑7‑4]
[F‑8]	Opposition by person/non-person	Lexical, morphological and syntactic [F‑8‑7]
[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	Marked and unmarked [G‑2‑3]
[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‑6]	Means of expressing spatial relations	Pronouns, pronominal adverbs, locative cases, adpositions [H‑6‑24]
[H‑8]	Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns	Different [H‑8‑2]

[I‑1]	Voice forms expression	Auxiliary verb, affixes and function words [I‑1‑9]
[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	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‑8]	Expression of negation	Negative particles [J‑8‑3]
[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‑7]	Number of conjugation types	Two types of conjugation [K‑7‑2]
[K‑8]	Verb agreement types	Subject and subject-object [K‑8‑4]
[K‑10]	Tense expressed by participle	Present, past and future [K‑10‑10]
[K‑12]	Agreement categories expressed in adjective	Absent [K‑12‑1]
[K‑14]	Attribute agreement of adjectives	Absent [K‑14‑2]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Prefixal-suffixal [K‑19‑1]

[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]
[M‑4]	Order of nouns and its modifier	Not fixed [M‑4‑3]

[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]