1. Family: Huitotoan
  2. Genus: Huitoto

Huitoto (Murui)

WALS coordinates: 1° S, 73° 30′ W

spoken in Brazil, Colombia, Peru

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /p/ Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants No laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Simple Phonology
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13A Tone No tones Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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39A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns No inclusive/exclusive Nominal Categories
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40A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection No inclusive/exclusive Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses Relative clause-Noun (RelN) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix Complex Sentences
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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