1. Family: Panoan
  2. Genus: Panoan

Amahuaca

WALS coordinates: 10° 30′ S, 72° 30′ W

spoken in Brazil, Peru

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Amahuaca
Routledge:
  • Amawaka
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants No laterals
    Vowel Nasalization Contrast present
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
    Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    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 Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
    Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
    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 Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Identical