Family: Trans-New Guinea
Genus: Fasu

Fasu

WALS coordinates: 6° 35′ S, 143° 20′ E

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Fasu
Ruhlen:	Fasu
Routledge:
Other:	Fasu (Namo Me)
ISO 639-3:	faa (article in Wikipedia)

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately low	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	No laterals	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Simple	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	Simple tone system	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing	Morphology	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics	Nominal Categories	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes	Verbal Categories	comment
77A	Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Direct and indirect	Verbal Categories	comment examples
78A	Coding of Evidentiality	Verbal affix or clitic	Verbal Categories	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	SV	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	OV	Word Order	comment
85A	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle	Word Order	comment
95A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj	Word Order	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology	Simple Clauses	comment