1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Garífuna

WALS coordinates: 15° 40′ N, 88° W

spoken in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
Routledge:
Other:
  • Carib (Hopkins Island),
  • Island Carib,
  • Island Carib, Carib (Island),
  • Black Carib
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Mixed Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense No past tense Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense Inflectional future exists Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect Other perfect Verbal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion None Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 9-10 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green vs. blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb NegVSO Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages NegVSO Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object None Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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