Karen (Bwe)

WALS coordinates: 19° 30′ N, 97° E

spoken in Myanmar

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Bwe
Routledge:
Other:
  • Bwe Karen
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one' Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation [Neg-V]Neg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb End, not immed postverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages ObligNeg Word Order
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144F Obligatory Double Negation in SVO languages S[Neg-V]ONeg Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Prefix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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