Cavineña
WALS coordinates: 13° 19′ 48.00″ S, 66° 30′ W
spoken in Bolivia
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | |
| Fixed Stress Locations | Penultimate | |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) | |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight | |
| Rhythm Types | Trochaic | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | |
| Person Marking on Adpositions | No person marking | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Ergative | |
| Verbal Person Marking | Only the P argument | |
| Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | No zero realization | |
| Order of Person Markers on the Verb | A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb | |
| Passive Constructions | Absent | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories | 5 | |
| Number of Basic Colour Categories | 6-6.5 | |
| Green and Blue | Green/blue | |
| Red and Yellow | Red vs. yellow | |
