1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Eastern Highlands

Hua

WALS coordinates: 6° 20′ S, 145° 20′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
      Other:
        ISO 639-3:

        Features

        Feature Value References
        Morphology
        Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
        Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Double marking
        Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Double-marking
        Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
        Nominal Categories
        Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
        Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
        Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
        Number of Cases 8-9 cases
        Asymmetrical Case-Marking Subtractive-quantitatively asymmetrical
        Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
        Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
        Numeral Classifiers Absent
        Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Prefixes and suffixes
        Nominal Syntax
        Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
        Possessive Classification Three to five classes
        Action Nominal Constructions No action nominals
        Verbal Categories
        Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
        Word Order
        Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
        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 Adjective-Noun
        Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
        Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
        Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
        Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
        Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
        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 AdjN
        Simple Clauses
        Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
        Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
        Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
        Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
        Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
        Passive Constructions Absent
        Negative Morphemes Negative affix
        Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
        Lexicon
        M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
        N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns