Old Uighur language †

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Uyghur

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Volume 2. Turkic languages
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Main country: Mongolia (show on the map)

[A‑4]	Degrees of vowel backness	Front and back [A‑4‑2]
[A‑5]	Presence of length degrees	Present [A‑5‑1]
[A‑6]	Number of length degrees	Two [A‑6‑1]
[A‑13]	Diphthongs and triphthongs	No diphthongs and triphthongs [A‑13‑1]
[A‑15]	Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features	Opposition by presence and absence of voice [A‑15‑1]
[A‑16]	Inventory of obstruents by manner of articulation	Plosives, affricates and fricatives [A‑16‑3]
[A‑17]	Inventory of obstruents by place of articulation	Labial, coronal, velar/uvular and laryngeal [A‑17‑4]
[A‑18]	Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation	Bilabial and labiodental [A‑18‑2]
[A‑20]	Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation	Velar and uvular [A‑20‑3]
[A‑21]	Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation	Only glottal [A‑21‑2]
[A‑22]	Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents	Absent [A‑22‑1]

[B‑2]	Prosodic unit carrier	Syllable [B‑2‑1]
[B‑4]	Stress type (quality characteristics)	Dynamic [B‑4‑1]
[B‑5]	Stress fixedness	Fixed [B‑5‑2]
[B‑9]	Limited stress carriers	Ultima [B‑9‑4]
[B‑16]	Target of vowel harmony	Group of affixes [B‑16‑4]
[B‑17]	Feature of vowel harmony	Backness and roundedness [B‑17‑7]
[B‑18]	Trigger of vowel harmony	First vowel of word (root) [B‑18‑6]

[C‑1]	Syllable onset	Both null and non-null onset possible [C‑1‑4]
[C‑2]	Syllable coda	Both null and non-null coda possible [C‑2‑4]

No filled features for this language.

[E‑1]

Agglutinative [E‑1‑1]

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

[G‑1]	Number in nouns	Singular and plural [G‑1‑1]
[G‑2]	Single number marking	Unmarked [G‑2‑2]
[G‑3]	Honorific forms in pronouns and verbs	Absent [G‑3‑1]
[G‑4]	Agreement in number	Predicative [G‑4‑2]

[H‑1]	Number of noun cases	Eight-twelve [H‑1‑3]
[H‑2]	Subject and object marking	Case affixes [H‑2‑3]
[H‑4]	Case marking of possessive relations	Genitive [H‑4‑1]
[H‑5]	Other means of expressing possessive relations	Possessive affixes [H‑5‑3]

[I‑1]	Voice forms expression	Auxiliary verb and affixes [I‑1‑6]
[I‑4]	Voice forms coincidence	Absent [I‑4‑1]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Past [I‑5‑1]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Present [I‑5‑2]
[I‑5]	Tense forms	Non-past [I‑5‑5]
[I‑7]	Expression of tense categories	Auxiliary verbs and affixes [I‑7‑3]
[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‑3]	Function words expressing spatial orientation of action	Function nouns [J‑3‑5]
[J‑4]	Content words expressing spatial orientation of action	Pronouns [J‑4‑4]
[J‑6]	Words expressing (in)definiteness	Numerals [J‑6‑7]
[J‑8]	Expression of negation	Negative particles and negative affixes [J‑8‑9]
[J‑9]	Negation marker position	Preposition and postposition [J‑9‑9]

[K‑2]	Articles	No articles [K‑2‑1]
[K‑7]	Number of conjugation types	Single type of conjugation [K‑7‑1]
[K‑8]	Verb agreement types	Subject [K‑8‑2]
[K‑16]	Inflectional categories of noun	Case, possessivity and number [K‑16‑11]
[K‑18]	Inflection means	Affixes [K‑18‑2]
[K‑19]	Word form model	Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4]