1. Family: Lakes Plain
  2. Genus: Lakes Plain

Iau

WALS coordinates: 3° 10′ 12.00″ S, 137° 30′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

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

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively tonal
    Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives No case
    Locus of Marking in the Clause No marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Two classes
    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 Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    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 NRel
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns