1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Mekeo

WALS coordinates: 8° 20′ S, 146° 30′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Mekeo
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Mekeo-Kovio
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Mixed
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Polar Questions Question particle