Sanglechi language

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Sanglich

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

[A‑1]	Number of degrees of vowel height	Three [A‑1‑2]
[A‑3]	Degrees of vowel backness	Mixed-front and back [A‑3‑6]
[A‑4]	Number of length degrees	Two [A‑4‑2]
[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‑17]	Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation	Only glottal [A‑17‑2]
[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]

[B‑1]	Stress character	Non-phonological [B‑1‑3]
[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‑5]	Fixed stress carrier	First syllable or ultima [B‑5‑11]
[B‑9]	Length character	Phonological and non-phonological [B‑9‑4]

[C‑1]	Syllable onset	Most syllables have a non-null onset [C‑1‑3]
[C‑2]	Syllable coda	Both null and non-null ocoda possible [C‑2‑5]

[D‑3]	Characteristics of the syllabic structure of words	Mainly polysyllabic words [D‑3‑4]
[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 [D‑5‑2]
[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, consonant and mixed alternations [D‑8‑8]

[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]
[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 [F‑3‑3]
[F‑7]	Nouns classifying categories	Person/non-person and animacy/inanimacy [F‑7‑4]
[F‑8]	Opposition by person/non-person	Lexical and syntactic [F‑8‑5]
[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	Unmarked [G‑2‑2]
[G‑4]	Agreement in number	Predicative [G‑4‑2]
[G‑5]	Form of a noun in numeral phrases	Singular [G‑5‑1]
[G‑6]	Numeral system	Decimal with elements of duodecimal [G‑6‑2]

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

[I‑1]	Voice forms expression	Category of voice is absent [I‑1‑1]
[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, tense, aspect, and modality (mood) [I‑8‑17]
[I‑9]	Marking of person in present tense verbs	In singular and plural [I‑9‑3]
[I‑10]	Transitivity marker	Absent [I‑10‑1]

[J‑1]	Pronominal words	Pronominal adverbs, adjectives and nouns [J‑1‑10]
[J‑2]	Expression of deictic categories	Demonstrative pronouns and adverbs [J‑2‑11]
[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‑5]	Morphological expression of (in)definiteness	Suffixed definite article [J‑5‑15]
[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‑3]	Indefinite article and numeral 'one'	Same [K‑3‑1]
[K‑7]	Number of conjugation types	Two types of conjugation [K‑7‑2]
[K‑8]	Verb agreement types	Subject [K‑8‑2]
[K‑9]	Agreement categories expressed in participle	Absent [K‑9‑1]
[K‑10]	Tense expressed by participle	Present and past [K‑10‑6]
[K‑11]	Adverb grammar categories	Absent [K‑11‑1]
[K‑12]	Agreement categories expressed in adjective	Absent [K‑12‑1]
[K‑17]	Cumulative expression of several categories in noun	Gender / agreement class, number and case [K‑17‑11]
[K‑18]	Inflection means	Reduplication, internal flection and affixes [K‑18‑11]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4]

[L‑1]	Word formation means	Derivation, reduplication and compounding [L‑1‑19]
[L‑2]	Derivation affixes	Suffixes [L‑2‑2]

[M‑1]	Morphosyntactic alignment	Accusative [M‑1‑3]
[M‑3]	Dominant word order	SOV [M‑3‑2]
[M‑4]	Order of nouns and its modifier	Modifier precedes noun [M‑4‑1]

[N‑4]	Compound sentence types	Subordination and compounding [N‑4‑4]
[N‑5]	Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton	Asyndeton dominant [N‑5‑2]