1. Family: Tacanan
  2. Genus: Tacanan

Ese Ejja

WALS coordinates: 11° S, 66° W

spoken in Bolivia, Peru

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ese'ejja
Routledge:
  • Ese'eha
Other:
  • Ese-ejja,
  • Essejja,
  • Chama (Tiatinagua),
  • Chama,
  • Eseejja,
  • Tiatinagua
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
Rhythm Types Trochaic
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
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 Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
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 Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
Number of Basic Colour Categories 7-7.5
Green and Blue Green/blue
Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow