1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Futuna-Aniwa

WALS coordinates: 19° 31′ 48.00″ S, 170° 13′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Vanuatu

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Futuna-Aniwa
Routledge:
    Other:
    • W. Futuna-Aniwa,
    • West Futuna-Aniwa,
    • Western Futuna,
    • Futua,
    • Aniwa
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
    Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different