1. Family: Huitotoan
  2. Genus: Huitoto

Huitoto (Minica)

WALS coordinates: 0° 20′ S, 74° W

spoken in Colombia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Meneca
Routledge:
  • Meneka
Other:
  • Witoto Meneca,
  • Witoto (Minica)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Case Syncretism No syncretism
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking Not syncretic
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
Number of Cases 6-7 cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking Symmetrical
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
Situational Possibility Affixes on verbs
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
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 Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different