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‑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‑5] | Vowel opposition in labialization | Present for front, central and back vowels [A‑5‑8] | ||
[A‑6] | Vowel opposition in nasalization | No vowel opposition in nasalization [A‑6‑1] | ||
[A‑7] | Vowel opposition in pharyngealization | No vowel opposition in pharyngealization [A‑7‑1] | ||
[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‑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] |
[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] |
[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 restrictions [D‑1‑1] | ||
[D‑2] | Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position | No restrictions [D‑2‑1] | ||
[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 | Differences in phonetic structure and accentuation [D‑6‑5] |
[E‑2] | Fusional type features | Internal flection and cumulative flections [E‑2‑10] |
[F‑1] | Number of agreement classes | No agreement classes [F‑1‑1] | ||
[F‑7] | Nouns classifying categories | Absent [F‑7‑1] | ||
[F‑8] | Opposition by person/non-person | Lexical [F‑8‑1] | ||
[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 | 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] | ||
[G‑6] | Numeral system | Decimal [G‑6‑1] |
[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‑9] | Marking of person in present tense verbs | In singular and plural [I‑9‑3] |
[J‑1] | Pronominal words | Pronouns-nouns and pronouns-adjectives [J‑1‑11] | ||
[J‑2] | Expression of deictic categories | Demonstrative pronouns and prepositions [J‑2‑10] | ||
[J‑3] | Function words expressing spatial orientation of action | Adpositions [J‑3‑9] | ||
[J‑4] | Content words expressing spatial orientation of action | Adverbs [J‑4‑3] | ||
[J‑6] | Words expressing (in)definiteness | Articles, pronouns and numerals [J‑6‑21] | ||
[J‑8] | Expression of negation | Negative pronouns and negative particles [J‑8‑6] | ||
[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 definite [K‑2‑3] | ||
[K‑3] | Indefinite article and numeral 'one' | Same [K‑3‑1] | ||
[K‑4] | Article place | Postposition [K‑4‑2] | ||
[K‑6] | Grammar categories of article | Definiteness [K‑6‑2] | ||
[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 | 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 | Internal flection and affixes [K‑18‑5] | ||
[K‑19] | Word form model | Prefixal-suffixal [K‑19‑1] |
[L‑1] | Word formation means | Derivation and compounding [L‑1‑12] | ||
[L‑2] | Derivation affixes | Prefixes and suffixes [L‑2‑3] |
[M‑2] | Word order fixedness | Relatively free [M‑2‑3] | ||
[M‑3] | Dominant word order | SOV [M‑3‑2] | ||
[M‑4] | Order of nouns and its modifier | Not fixed [M‑4‑3] |
[N‑5] | Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton | Both syndesis and asyndeton possible [N‑5‑3] |