Camsá

WALS coordinates: 1° 10′ 12.00″ N, 77° W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Average
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Complex
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories	6
Number of Basic Colour Categories	9-10
Green and Blue	Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow	Red vs. yellow