Family: Trans-New Guinea
Genus: Eastern Highlands

Gadsup

WALS coordinates: 6° 15′ S, 146° E

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Gadsup
Ruhlen:	Gadsup
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Other:
ISO 639-3:	gaj

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Small (2-4)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	No laterals	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Moderately complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	Complex tone system	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	No fricatives	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing	Morphology	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
52A	Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation	Nominal Categories	comment examples
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes	Nominal Categories	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes	Verbal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	SV	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	OV	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN	Word Order	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative particle	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology	Simple Clauses	comment
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	NegV	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	NegV	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment
144A	Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb	SONegV	Word Order	comment
144B	Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb	Immed preverbal	Word Order	comment
144L	The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages	SONegV	Word Order	comment
144P	NegSOV Order	No NegSOV	Word Order	comment
144Q	SNegOV Order	No SNegOV	Word Order	comment
144R	SONegV Order	Word&NoDoubleNeg	Word Order	comment
144S	SOVNeg Order	NoSOVNeg	Word Order	comment