Rushani language

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Volume 7. Iranian languages. III. Eastern Iranian languages
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Main country: Tajikistan (show on the map)

[A‑4]	Number of length degrees	Two [A‑4‑2]
[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‑9]	Diphthongs and triphthongs	No diphthongs and triphthongs [A‑9‑1]
[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‑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 and coronal [A‑20‑7]
[A‑21]	Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants	Absent [A‑21‑1]

[B‑1]	Stress character	Non-phonological [B‑1‑3]
[B‑2]	Stress type	Quantitative [B‑2‑2]
[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	No consonant clusters [D‑1‑6]
[D‑4]	Differences between content and function words	Differences in phonetic structure and accentual differences [D‑4‑5]
[D‑6]	Differences between roots and affixes	Differences in phonetic structure and accentuation [D‑6‑5]
[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‑1]	Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word	Fusional-agglutinative [E‑1‑5]
[E‑2]	Fusional type features	Internal flection [E‑2‑1]
[E‑3]	Agglutinative type features	No phonetic alternations in morphemes [E‑3‑4]

[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‑8]	Opposition by person/non-person	Lexical and syntactic [F‑8‑5]
[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	Unmarked [G‑2‑2]
[G‑4]	Agreement in number	Predicative and attributive [G‑4‑4]
[G‑5]	Form of a noun in numeral phrases	Singular and plural [G‑5‑3]

[H‑1]	Number of noun cases	One-two [H‑1‑1]
[H‑6]	Means of expressing spatial relations	Adpositions [H‑6‑12]
[H‑8]	Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns	Different [H‑8‑2]

[I‑1]	Voice forms expression	Auxiliary verb and affixes [I‑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‑8]	Syncretic expression of several verb meanings	Person, number, gender, tense, aspect, and modality (mood) [I‑8‑19]
[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	Pronominal adverbs, adjectives and nouns [J‑1‑10]
[J‑2]	Expression of deictic categories	Demonstrative pronouns, postpositions and adverbs [J‑2‑17]
[J‑3]	Function words expressing spatial orientation of action	Adpositions and particles [J‑3‑10]
[J‑4]	Content words expressing spatial orientation of action	Pronouns and adverbs [J‑4‑6]
[J‑5]	Morphological expression of (in)definiteness	Different cases for definite and indefinite objects [J‑5‑10]
[J‑6]	Words expressing (in)definiteness	Articles, pronouns and numerals [J‑6‑21]

[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 [K‑4‑1]
[K‑6]	Grammar categories of article	Case, gender and number [K‑6‑10]
[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‑9]	Agreement categories expressed in participle	Gender and number [K‑9‑6]
[K‑12]	Agreement categories expressed in adjective	Gender and number [K‑12‑7]
[K‑16]	Inflectional categories of noun	Number and case [K‑16‑7]
[K‑18]	Inflection means	Affixes [K‑18‑2]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4]

[L‑2]

Derivation affixes

Prefixes, suffixes and postfixes [L‑2‑6]

[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]