Maxakalí

WALS coordinates: 18° S, 40° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Low	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	No laterals	Phonology	comment
9A	The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Moderately complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	No tones	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	No fricatives or nasals	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes	Nominal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	SV	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	OV	Word Order	comment
85A	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial	Word Order	comment
95A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions	Word Order	comment
106A	Reciprocal Constructions	Identical to reflexive	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Question particle	Simple Clauses	comment