1. Family: Vaupés-Japurá
  2. Genus: Vaupés-Japurá

Hup

WALS coordinates: 0° 10′ N, 69° 15′ W

spoken in Colombia, Brazil

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Hupda
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Jupda,
    • Ubde-Nehern, Macú, Makú
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Nominal Categories
    Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
    Distributive Numerals No distributive numerals
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, without interrogative
    Nominal Syntax
    Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
    Adjectives without Nouns Marked by prefix
    Word Order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    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 Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Numeral Bases Restricted
    Other
    Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Other or none