Itonama

WALS coordinates: 12° 50′ S, 64° 20′ W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
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	Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Mixed type
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality	Separate particle
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Genitive and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	Other
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Polar Questions	Interrogative verb morphology