1. Family: Macro-Ge
  2. Genus: Kariri

Kariri

WALS coordinates: 10° S, 37° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kiriri
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Kipeá,
    • Cariri, Kipea,
    • Kipea,
    • Cariri,
    • Kariri,
    • Kipea Kiriri
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively isolating
    Locus of Marking in the Clause Dependent marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Double marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Three to five classes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
    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 VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns