1. Family: Sko
  2. Genus: Serra Hills

Dumo

WALS coordinates: 2° 40′ 48.00″ S, 141° 18′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Vanimo
Routledge:
  • Vanimo
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Tone Complex tone system
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Locus of Marking in the Clause No marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
    Nominal Categories
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Two classes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OVX
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
    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 Absent
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns N-M pronouns, paradigmatic