1. Family: West Papuan
  2. Genus: North-Central Bird's Head

Abun

WALS coordinates: 0° 30′ S, 132° 30′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
      Other:
      • Yimbun
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural
      Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction
      Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
      Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, without interrogative
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Neutral
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
      Verbal Person Marking No person marking
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly
      Purpose Clauses Deranked
      'When' Clauses Balanced
      Reason Clauses Balanced
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
      Lexicon
      Numeral Bases Decimal