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

Gapapaiwa

WALS coordinates: 9° 45′ S, 149° 50′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gapapaiwa
Routledge:
  • Gapapaiwa (Paiwa, Manape)
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Nominal Categories
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory
    Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle