1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Madang

Kalam

WALS coordinates: 5° 15′ S, 144° 35′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kalam
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
46A Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals No distributive numerals Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions 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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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly Complex Sentences
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green/blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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142A Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings Other
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