1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Baré

WALS coordinates: 1° N, 67° W

spoken in Brazil, Venezuela

Alternative Names

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

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
    The Associative Plural No associative plural
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
    Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    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 Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    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 VO and Postpositions
    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 affixes on verb
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
    Negative Morphemes Double negation
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
    Comparative Constructions Locational
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Numeral Bases Restricted