1. Family: Jivaroan
  2. Genus: Jivaroan

Jivaro

WALS coordinates: 2° 30′ S, 78° W

spoken in Ecuador

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Shuar
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Jibaro,
    • Siurra,
    • Siwora
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
    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
    The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Double marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Double-marking
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
    The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions
    The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
    The Perfect Other perfect
    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 Adjective-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Identical
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns