1. Family: Huitotoan
  2. Genus: Huitoto

Huitoto (Murui)

WALS coordinates: 1° S, 73° 30′ W

spoken in Colombia, Brazil, Peru

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Murui
Routledge:
  • Murui
Other:
  • Witoto Murui,
  • Witoto (Murui),
  • Witoto, Murui dialect
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /p/
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants No laterals
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Simple
Tone No tones
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns No inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection No inclusive/exclusive
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
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 Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
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
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different