Sedang
Austro-Asiatic family · Bahnaric branch · Eurasia
Sedang is an SVO language, like 488 of the 1,376 languages WALS codes for basic word order.
On Glottalized Consonants, WALS codes Sedang as “Implosives and glottalized resonants”, a value held by 4 of the 567 languages coded, Khmu' and Lugbara among them.
On Position of Polar Question Particles, WALS codes Sedang as “Question particle with other position”, a value held by 8 of the 884 languages coded, Basque and Hmong Njua among them.
Contrast Sedang with Vietnamese or with any other language
Uncommon values
Values that fewer than one in ten of the coded languages share with Sedang, rarest first.
- Negative MorphemesNegative word, unclear if verb or particle73 of 1,157
Inside the Austro-Asiatic family
Sedang matches the most frequent Austro-Asiatic value on 36 of the 46 features where at least three other members of the family are coded (78%). Among the 9 Austro-Asiatic languages profiled here, that rate ranks second from the top.
Closest profiles
Languages that share the most coded values with Sedang; the count is out of the features both languages are coded for.
The rest of the profile
WALS codes Sedang for 47 of the 144 profile features used on this site. The remaining 43 are listed here, grouped by topic; within each group the value Sedang shares with the fewest languages comes first.
Sounds 17
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Consonant Inventories | Large | 57 of 563 |
| Fixed Stress Locations | Ultimate: stress is on the ultimate (last) syllable | 51 of 502 |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately high | 102 of 564 |
| Rhythm Types | Absent: no rhythmic stress | 98 of 323 |
| The Velar Nasal | Velar nasal, also initially | 147 of 469 |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing contrast | 182 of 567 |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Large vowel inventory (7-14) | 184 of 564 |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | 242 of 567 |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight, or weight factor unknown | 261 of 500 |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) | 281 of 500 |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex syllable structure | 274 of 486 |
| Tone | No tones | 307 of 527 |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | 388 of 567 |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | 449 of 567 |
| Uvular Consonants | No uvulars | 470 of 567 |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | 503 of 567 |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | 525 of 562 |
Word structure 2
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Little or no inflectional morphology | 141 of 969 |
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | 278 of 368 |
Nouns and pronouns 3
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | Plural only in human nouns, obligatory | 40 of 291 |
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural word | 170 of 1,066 |
| Position of Case Affixes | Neither case affixes nor adpositional clitics | 379 of 1,031 |
Noun phrases 1
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Noun Phrase Conjunction | WITH-languages: 'and' and 'with' are identical | 103 of 234 |
Word order 11
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Noun-genitive (NGen) | 468 of 1,249 |
| Order of Degree Word and Adjective | Degree word follows adjective (AdjDeg) | 192 of 481 |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Numeral precedes noun (NumN) | 479 of 1,154 |
| Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | Verb-object-oblique (VOX) | 210 of 500 |
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Prepositions | 511 of 1,184 |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative word follows noun (NDem) | 562 of 1,225 |
| Order of Object and Verb | Object follows verb (VO) | 705 of 1,518 |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Modifying adjective follows noun (NAdj) | 879 of 1,367 |
| Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Interrogative phrases not obligatorily initial | 615 of 902 |
| Order of Relative Clause and Noun | Relative clause follows noun (NRel) | 579 of 824 |
| Order of Subject and Verb | Subject precedes verb (SV) | 1,192 of 1,496 |
Simple clauses 6
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Mixed | 40 of 378 |
| Predicative Possession | Topic Possessive | 48 of 240 |
| Predicative Adjectives | Predicative adjectives have verbal encoding | 151 of 386 |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Zero copula is possible | 175 of 386 |
| Polar Questions | Question particle | 585 of 955 |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Different | 269 of 386 |
Complex sentences 1
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| 'Want' Complement Subjects | The complement subject is left implicit | 144 of 283 |
Vocabulary 2
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Hand and Arm | Identity: a single word denotes both 'hand' and 'arm' | 228 of 617 |
| Finger and Hand | Different | 521 of 593 |