Guajajara

WALS coordinates: 5° S, 46° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality	Separate particle
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	VSO
Order of Subject and Verb	VS
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	VOX
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
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
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	VO and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Predicative Possession	Topic
Predicative Adjectives	Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Possible
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different