Karitiâna

WALS coordinates: 9° 30′ S, 64° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Ergative
      Verbal Person Marking Only the P argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Present