Machiguenga
WALS coordinates: 12° S, 72° 40′ W
spoken in Peru
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Nominal Categories | ||
| Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| 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 Genitive and Noun | Noun-Genitive | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | No dominant order | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Mixed | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | Other | |
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| Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
