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

Gela

WALS coordinates: 9° 5′ S, 160° 15′ E

spoken in Solomon Islands

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gela
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit