Kombai

WALS coordinates: 5° 35′ S, 140° E

spoken in Indonesia

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
23A Locus of Marking in the Clause No marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases No morphological case-marking Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking No case-marking 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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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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60A Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV 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 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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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Doubly headed Word Order
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90G Double-headed relative clauses Double-headed dominant 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 Final subordinator word 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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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other 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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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Mixed Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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136A M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular No m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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143C Optional 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 [V-Neg] 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 OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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144O Optional Double Negation in SOV languages SO[(Neg-)V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order Prefix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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