1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Goajiro

WALS coordinates: 12° N, 72° W

spoken in Colombia, Venezuela

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Goajiro
Routledge:
  • Wahiro
Other:
  • Guajiro
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Small
Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
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 Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels None
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
Ordinal Numerals First, two, three
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Nominal Syntax
Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
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 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 Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
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 Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive
Polar Questions Question particle
Predicative Possession Conjunctional
Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
Comparative Constructions Particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different
Numeral Bases Decimal