Fasu

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

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	No laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Simple
Tone	Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality	Verbal affix or clitic
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	Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
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
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology