1. Family: Tucanoan
  2. Genus: Tucanoan

Cubeo

WALS coordinates: 1° 19′ 48.00″ N, 70° 30′ W

spoken in Colombia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cubeo
Routledge:
  • Kubewa
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /g/
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants No laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Simple
    Tone Simple tone system
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Prominence
    Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
    Absence of Common Consonants No nasals
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
    Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
    Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Differentiated
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb OVS
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Verbal Person Marking Only the A 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 Present
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different