Gadsup

WALS coordinates: 6° 15′ S, 146° E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	No laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	Complex tone system
Absence of Common Consonants	No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
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 Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology