1. Family: Macro-Ge
  2. Genus: Ge-Kaingang

Apinayé

WALS coordinates: 5° 30′ S, 48° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Apinaye
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low
      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
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
      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 Noun-Demonstrative
      Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      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
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different
      Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
      Number of Basic Colour Categories 4.5-5.5
      Green and Blue Green/blue
      Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow