Damana

WALS coordinates: 11° N, 73° 30′ W

spoken in Colombia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Malayo
Routledge:
  • Wamaka
Other:
  • Wiwa
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different
Numeral Bases Decimal