1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: South Halmahera - West New Guinea

Irarutu

WALS coordinates: 3° S, 133° 30′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

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

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants No laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone No tones
    Fixed Stress Locations Ultimate
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
    Nominal Categories
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    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 VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only