1. Family: Barbacoan
  2. Genus: Barbacoan

Cayapa

WALS coordinates: 0° 40′ 12.00″ N, 79° W

spoken in Ecuador

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cayapa
Routledge:
  • Kayapa
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Average
    Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high
    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
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    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
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 4.5-5.5
    Green and Blue Green/blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow