Balinese
WALS coordinates: 8° 19′ 48.00″ S, 115° 15′ E
spoken in Indonesia
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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| Routledge: | |
| Other: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Fixed Stress Locations | Ultimate | |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) | |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight | |
| Morphology | ||
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Distributive Numerals | Marked by reduplication | |
| Numeral Classifiers | Optional | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses | Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed | |
| Adjectives without Nouns | Marked by preceding word | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Situational Possibility | Verbal constructions | |
| Epistemic Possibility | Other | |
| Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking | Overlap for either possibility or necessity | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions | Morphological but no compound | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Tea | Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te | |
| Other | ||
| Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks | Affective meanings | |
