Makassar

WALS coordinates: 5° 25′ S, 119° 35′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Makassarese
Routledge:
  • Makassarese
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
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Numeral Classifiers Optional
    Nominal Syntax
    Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
    Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
    Lexicon
    Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te