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

Lampung

WALS coordinates: 5° S, 105° E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations Ultimate
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for non-human reference
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      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 Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      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
      Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator 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
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Lexicon
      Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te