1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Ambae (Lolovoli Northeast)

WALS coordinates: 15° 25′ S, 167° 53′ E

spoken in Vanuatu

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Aoban (Northeast)
Routledge:
  • Aoban (Northeast)
Other:
  • North-East Ambae (Lolovoli),
  • Ambae (Lolovoli)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, optional
Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Nominal Syntax
Adjectives without Nouns Marked by suffix
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
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 Prepositions
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
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 pronouns in different position
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects Both construction types exist