1. Family: Tupian
  2. Genus: Tupi-Guaraní

Cocama

WALS coordinates: 5° S, 74° 30′ W

spoken in Peru

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cocama
Routledge:
  • Kokama-Kokamilya
Other:
  • Kokama
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
The Perfect Other perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
Polar Questions Question particle