Carapana

WALS coordinates: 0° 49′ 48.00″ N, 70° 45′ W

spoken in Colombia, Brazil

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Carapana
Routledge:
  • Karapaná
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
    Coding of Evidentiality Part of the tense system
    Word Order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Subordinating suffix
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different