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

Minangkabau

WALS coordinates: 1° S, 101° E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
      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
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication
      Numeral Classifiers Optional
      Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, with interrogative
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Weakly differentiated
      Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      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
      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 Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
      Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
      Lexicon
      Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te
      Other
      Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings