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

Bali-Vitu

WALS coordinates: 4° 54′ S, 149° 7′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      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 Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      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
      Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit