1. Family: East Bird's Head
  2. Genus: East Bird's Head

Meyah

WALS coordinates: 1° 10′ S, 133° 30′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Meax
Routledge:
  • Meax
Other:
  • Mansibaber,
  • Meah
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress Not predictable
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Position of Polar Question Particles Final
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle