1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Eastern Highlands

Gahuku

WALS coordinates: 6° S, 145° 25′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gahuku
Routledge:
  • Gahuku-Asaro
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Definite Articles Definite affix
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite affix
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Prefixes and suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
    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 Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology