Adzera
WALS coordinates: 6° 15′ S, 146° 15′ E
spoken in Papua New Guinea
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Moderately large | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Small (2-4) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately high | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | No laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | |
| Person Marking on Adpositions | No person marking | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Neutral | |
| 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 | |
| Passive Constructions | Absent | |
