1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Western Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Northern Philippines

Kapampangan

WALS coordinates: 15° 20′ N, 120° 30′ E

spoken in Philippines

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kapampangan
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Pampangan
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Word Order
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Ergative
    Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P
    Passive Constructions Absent
    Antipassive Constructions Implicit patient
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible