Gavião

WALS coordinates: 10° 40′ 12.00″ S, 62° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal	Initial velar nasal
Nominal Categories
Distributive Numerals	No distributive numerals
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Nominal Syntax
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses	Highly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns	Marked by prefix
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	Demonstrative-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Final subordinator word
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	Question particle