Andoke

WALS coordinates: 0° 40′ 12.00″ S, 72° W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Missing /g/
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	No laterals
The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Simple
Tone	Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants	No nasals
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Reduplication	No productive reduplication
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Identity
Nominal Syntax
Noun Phrase Conjunction	'And' different from 'with'
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality	Verbal affix or clitic
Word Order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Simple Clauses
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	Non-assignable
Comparative Constructions	Locational
Lexicon
Numeral Bases	Pure vigesimal