Turki language †

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Chagatai

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Volume 2. Turkic languages
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Genealogy

Altaic → Turkic → Karluk

Geography

Main country: Tajikistan (show on the map)

Features

Phonemic structure

No filled features for this language.

Prosodic phenomena

No filled features for this language.

Syllable

No filled features for this language.

Phonologic structure and phenomena

No filled features for this language.

Morphological type of language

[E‑1]

Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word

Agglutinative [E‑1‑1]

Nominal classifications

[F‑1]	Number of agreement classes	No agreement classes [F‑1‑1]
[F‑7]	Nouns classifying categories	Absent [F‑7‑1]

Number

[G‑1]	Number in nouns	Singular and plural [G‑1‑1]
[G‑4]	Agreement in number	Predicative and attributive [G‑4‑4]

Case meanings

[H‑1]	Number of noun cases	Three-seven [H‑1‑2]
[H‑4]	Case marking of possessive relations	Genitive [H‑4‑1]
[H‑5]	Other means of expressing possessive relations	Possessive pronouns [H‑5‑4]

Verbal categories

[I‑5]	Tense forms	Past [I‑5‑1]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Present [I‑5‑2]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Future [I‑5‑3]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Non-past [I‑5‑5]
[I‑7]	Expression of tense categories	Auxiliary verbs and affixes [I‑7‑3]

Deictic categories

No filled features for this language.

Parts of speech and inflection

[K‑2]	Article types	No articles [K‑2‑1]
[K‑18]	Inflection means	Affixes [K‑18‑2]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4]

Word formation

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

Simple sentence

[M‑3]

Dominant word order

SOV [M‑3‑2]

Complex sentence

[N‑1]	Clauses order in compound sentence	Subordinate clause precedes main clause [N‑1‑2]
[N‑3]	Dependent clause predicate	Both finite and non-finite forms possible [N‑3‑3]

Unfilled features

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[A-1] Number of degrees of vowel height
[A-2] Vowel height degrees
[A-210] Opposition in openness/closedness for vowel height degrees
[A-3] Degrees of vowel backness
[A-4] Number of length degrees
[A-5] Vowel opposition in labialization
[A-6] Vowel opposition in nasalization
[A-7] Vowel opposition in pharyngealization
[A-8] Vowel opposition in ATR
[A-9] Diphthongs and triphthongs
[A-10] Types of diphthongs
[A-11] Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features
[A-12] Inventory of obstruents by manner of articulation
[A-13] Inventory of obstruents by place of articulation
[A-14] Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation
[A-15] Inventory of coronal obstruents by place of articulation
[A-16] Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation
[A-17] Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation
[A-18] Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents
[A-19] Inventory of sonorants by manner of articulation
[A-20] Inventory of sonorants by place of articulation
[A-21] Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants
[A-220] Inventory of fricatives by place of articulation
[B-1] Stress character
[B-2] Stress type
[B-3] Stress carrier
[B-4] Stress fixedness
[B-5] Fixed stress carrier
[B-6] Number of tone levels
[B-7] Contour tone characteristics
[B-8] Tone carrier
[B-9] Length character
[B-10] Target of vowel harmony
[B-11] Feature of vowel harmony
[B-12] Trigger of vowel harmony
[B-13] Other suprasegmental phenomena
[B-14] Types of phonation
[C-1] Syllable onset
[C-2] Syllable coda
[D-1] Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the initial position
[D-2] Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position
[D-3] Characteristics of the syllabic structure of words
[D-4] Differences between content and function words
[D-5] Differences between native and borrowed words
[D-6] Differences between roots and affixes
[D-7] Functional type of alternations
[D-8] Type of altenations
[E-2] Fusional type features
[E-3] Agglutinative type features
[E-4] Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion
[F-5] Attributive agreement in gender
[F-6] Agreement of cardinal numerals in gender
[F-8] Opposition by person/non-person
[F-9] Expression of animacy/inanimacy
[G-2] Single number marking
[G-3] Honorific forms in pronouns and verbs
[G-5] Form of a noun in numeral phrases
[G-6] Numeral system
[H-2] Subject and object marking
[H-3] Case of nominal predicate
[H-6] Means of expressing spatial relations
[H-7] Dependent nouns in possessive constructions
[H-8] Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns
[H-9] Secondary cases
[I-1] Voice forms expression
[I-2] Voice stacking in the same verb form
[I-3] Double voice forms
[I-4] Voice forms coincidence
[I-6] Aspect and tense expression
[I-8] Syncretic expression of several verb meanings
[I-9] Marking of person in present tense verbs
[I-10] Transitivity marker
[J-1] Pronominal words
[J-2] Expression of deictic categories
[J-3] Function words expressing spatial orientation of action
[J-4] Content words expressing spatial orientation of action
[J-5] Morphological expression of (in)definiteness
[J-6] Words expressing (in)definiteness
[J-7] Expression of politeness
[J-8] Expression of negation
[J-9] Negation marker position
[K-1] Personal pronouns inflection
[K-3] Indefinite article and numeral 'one'
[K-7] Number of conjugation types
[K-8] Verb agreement types
[K-9] Agreement categories expressed in participle
[K-10] Tense expressed by participle
[K-11] Adverb grammar categories
[K-12] Agreement categories expressed in adjective
[K-13] Cumulative expression of several categories in adjective
[K-14] Attribute agreement of adjectives
[K-15] Attributive agreement types
[K-16] Inflectional categories of noun
[K-17] Cumulative expression of several categories in noun
[L-3] Stems relations in stem compounding
[M-1] Morphosyntactic alignment
[M-2] Word order fixedness
[M-4] Order of nouns and its modifier
[M-5] Pro-drop
[N-2] Dependent clause distinctions in complex sentences
[N-4] Compound sentence types
[N-5] Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton

Feature is not applicable to this language

[F-2] Morphological expression of agreement classes
[F-3] Syntactic expression of agreement classes
[F-4] Other means of expressing agreement classes
[K-4] Article place
[K-5] Position of article in noun phrase
[K-6] Grammar categories of article