Achagua

WALS coordinates: 4° 25′ N, 72° 15′ W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations	Initial
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	No weight
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Postpositions
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
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Reciprocal Constructions	Distinct from reflexive
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different
Numeral Bases	Restricted