Amuesha

WALS coordinates: 10° 30′ S, 75° 25′ W

spoken in Peru

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Amuesha
Routledge:
  • Amoesha
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately large Phonology
comment
2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
comment
3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio High Phonology
comment
4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In fricatives alone Phonology
comment
5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
comment
6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
comment
7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
comment
8A Lateral Consonants Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
comment
9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
comment
11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
comment
12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
comment
13A Tone No tones Phonology
comment
18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
comment
19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
comment
44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
comment
46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
comment
48A Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking Nominal Categories
comment
49A Number of Cases Exclusively borderline case-marking Nominal Categories
comment
50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Symmetrical Nominal Categories
comment
77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
comment
78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic Verbal Categories
comment
100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Active Simple Clauses
comment
102A Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments Simple Clauses
comment
103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms Simple Clauses
comment
104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P Simple Clauses
comment
106A Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive Simple Clauses
comment
examples
107A Passive Constructions Present Simple Clauses
comment
129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
comment
examples
130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
comment
examples