Karitiâna
WALS coordinates: 9° 30′ S, 64° W
spoken in Brazil
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| 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 | |