1. Family: Choco
  2. Genus: Choco

Embera

WALS coordinates: 6° 50′ N, 77° 10′ W

spoken in Colombia, Panama

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Embera
Routledge:
  • Emberá (North)
Other:
  • Darien,
  • Darien Embera,
  • Sambú,
  • Empera
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
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
The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb SV
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 Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Subordinating suffix
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 NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
Complex Sentences
Purpose Clauses Deranked
'When' Clauses Balanced
Reason Clauses Balanced
Utterance Complement Clauses Deranked
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different