Iranxe
WALS coordinates: 13° S, 58° W
spoken in Brazil
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | |
| 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 | |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | OV | |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | OV and NAdj | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | |