1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Garífuna

WALS coordinates: 15° 40′ N, 88° W

spoken in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Mixed
      Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
      The Past Tense No past tense
      The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
      The Perfect Other perfect
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None
      Verbal Number and Suppletion None
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      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
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      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
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Lexicon
      Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6
      Number of Basic Colour Categories 9-10
      Green and Blue Green vs. blue
      Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow