Volume 6. Iranian languages. II. North-Western Iranian languages
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Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Iranian → Northwestern Iranian
Main country: Iran (show on the map)
[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 presence and absence of voice [A‑11‑1] | ||
[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 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‑2] | Stress type | Dynamic [B‑2‑1] | ||
[B‑3] | Stress carrier | Syllable [B‑3‑1] | ||
[B‑4] | Stress fixedness | Movable fixed [B‑4‑3] |
No filled features for this language.
No filled features for this language.
[E‑1] | Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word | Fusional with some agglutinative features [E‑1‑4] | ||
[E‑2] | Fusional type features | Cumulative affixes [E‑2‑2] | ||
[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 | Analytic with elements of synthetism [E‑4‑3] |
[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‑7] | Nouns classifying categories | Animacy/inanimacy [F‑7‑3] | ||
[F‑9] | Expression of animacy/inanimacy | Lexical and morphological [F‑9‑6] |
[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] |
[H‑1] | Number of noun cases | One-two [H‑1‑1] | ||
[H‑4] | Case marking of possessive relations | Oblique [H‑4‑5] | ||
[H‑5] | Other means of expressing possessive relations | Apposition [H‑5‑7] |
[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 | Change of conjugation type [I‑10‑6] |
[J‑1] | Pronominal words | Pronouns-nouns and pronouns-adjectives [J‑1‑11] | ||
[J‑2] | Expression of deictic categories | Demonstrative pronouns and adpositions [J‑2‑16] | ||
[J‑3] | Function words expressing spatial orientation of action | Adpositions [J‑3‑9] | ||
[J‑4] | Content words expressing spatial orientation of action | Pronouns [J‑4‑4] | ||
[J‑5] | Morphological expression of (in)definiteness | Absent [J‑5‑1] | ||
[J‑6] | Words expressing (in)definiteness | Articles, pronouns and numerals [J‑6‑21] | ||
[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 | Only indefinite [K‑2‑2] | ||
[K‑3] | Indefinite article and numeral 'one' | Same [K‑3‑1] | ||
[K‑4] | Article place | Postposition [K‑4‑2] | ||
[K‑7] | Number of conjugation types | Two types of conjugation [K‑7‑2] | ||
[K‑8] | Verb agreement types | Subject [K‑8‑2] | ||
[K‑10] | Tense expressed by participle | Past [K‑10‑4] | ||
[K‑12] | Agreement categories expressed in adjective | Absent [K‑12‑1] | ||
[K‑17] | Cumulative expression of several categories in noun | Absent [K‑17‑1] | ||
[K‑18] | Inflection means | Affixes [K‑18‑2] | ||
[K‑19] | Word form model | Prefixal-suffixal [K‑19‑1] |
No filled features for this language.
[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] |
No filled features for this language.