Candoshi

WALS coordinates: 4° 10′ 12.00″ S, 77° W

spoken in Peru

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	Pronouns only
Verbal Categories
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative
Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No zero realization
Passive Constructions	Absent
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/Cat
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology
Lexicon
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories	5.5
Number of Basic Colour Categories	4.5-5.5
Green and Blue	Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow	Red vs. yellow