Ignaciano

WALS coordinates: 15° 10′ S, 65° 25′ W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Average
Vowel Quality Inventories	Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Missing /g/
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb	VS
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	VO and NRel
Simple Clauses
Reciprocal Constructions	Distinct from reflexive
Negative Morphemes	Negative auxiliary verb