1. noun, 2. pronoun (in place of noun), 3. adjective (describe noun - attributive, predicative, comparativ), 4. verb, 5. adverb (modify verb), 6. preposition, 7. conjunction, 8. interjection
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars)