Jivaro

WALS coordinates: 2° 30′ S, 78° W

spoken in Ecuador

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately small Phonology
comment
2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
comment
3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average Phonology
comment
4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast Phonology
comment
5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
comment
6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
comment
7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
comment
8A Lateral Consonants No laterals Phonology
comment
9A The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal Phonology
comment
11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
comment
18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
comment
19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
comment
23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking Morphology
comment
24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Double marking Morphology
comment
25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Double-marking Morphology
comment
examples
25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
comment
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
comment
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
comment
51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
comment
55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
comment
65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking Verbal Categories
comment
66A The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
comment
67A The Future Tense Inflectional future exists Verbal Categories
comment
68A The Perfect Other perfect Verbal Categories
comment
69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
comment
81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
comment
82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
comment
83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
comment
86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
comment
87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
comment
89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
comment
91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
comment
97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN Word Order
comment
112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
comment
129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
comment
examples
130A Finger and Hand Identical Lexicon
comment
130B Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand' Farmer-foragers Lexicon
comment
136A M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns Lexicon
comment
136B M in First Person Singular No m in first person singular Lexicon
comment
137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
comment
137B M in Second Person Singular m in second person singular Lexicon
comment
143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
comment
143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
comment
143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] Word Order
comment
143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
comment
144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
comment
144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[V-Neg] Word Order
comment
144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
comment
144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
comment
144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
comment
144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
comment