Fulniô

WALS coordinates: 8° S, 37° 30′ W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Average
Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In both plosives and fricatives
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
Syllable Structure	Complex
Tone	Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Word Order
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
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 Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology