1. Family: Sepik
  2. Genus: Middle Sepik

Ambulas

WALS coordinates: 3° 50′ S, 143° E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Abelam
Routledge:
  • Abelam
Other:
  • Abelam,
  • Abulas
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Locus of Marking in the Clause Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Dependent-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
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 OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle