Yazghulami language

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Yazgulyam, Iazgulem, Yazgulam

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

[A‑3]	Degrees of vowel backness	Front, front-central, central and back [A‑3‑8]
[A‑4]	Number of length degrees	No length degrees [A‑4‑1]
[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‑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 laryngeal [A‑17‑4]
[A‑18]	Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents	By labialization and palatalization [A‑18‑6]
[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]

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

[D‑1]	Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the initial position	No consonant clusters [D‑1‑6]
[D‑2]	Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the final position	No restrictions [D‑2‑1]
[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 syllable structure and accentual differences [D‑4‑6]
[D‑5]	Differences between native and borrowed words	No differences [D‑5‑1]
[D‑6]	Differences between roots and affixes	Differences in phonetic structure, in syllable structure and accentuation [D‑6‑6]
[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‑2]	Fusional type features	Phonetically unconditioned stem alternations and cumulative affixes [E‑2‑7]
[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‑4]	Other means of expressing agreement classes	Numeral classifiers [F‑4‑2]
[F‑8]	Opposition by person/non-person	Lexical, morphological and syntactic [F‑8‑7]
[F‑9]	Expression of animacy/inanimacy	Lexical, morphological, and syntactic [F‑9‑7]

[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 [G‑6‑1]

[H‑1]	Number of noun cases	One-two [H‑1‑1]
[H‑6]	Means of expressing spatial relations	Adpositions [H‑6‑12]

[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	Affix and special type of agreement [I‑10‑8]

[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	Numerals and pronouns [J‑6‑16]
[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	Definite and indefinite [K‑2‑4]
[K‑4]	Article place	Preposition [K‑4‑1]
[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‑10]	Tense expressed by participle	Present and past [K‑10‑6]
[K‑12]	Agreement categories expressed in adjective	Absent [K‑12‑1]
[K‑14]	Attribute agreement of adjectives	Absent [K‑14‑2]
[K‑16]	Inflectional categories of noun	Number [K‑16‑4]
[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	Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4]

[L‑1]

Word formation means

Derivation and compounding [L‑1‑12]

[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]