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

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