1. Family: Tucanoan
  2. Genus: Tucanoan

Desano

WALS coordinates: 0° 50′ N, 69° 50′ W

spoken in Colombia, Brazil

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Desano
Routledge:
  • Desana-Siriana
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Not predictable
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Lexical stress
    Nominal Categories
    The Associative Plural Unique affixal associative plural
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different