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

Mangap-Mbula

WALS coordinates: 5° 40′ 12.00″ S, 148° 4′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Mangap
Routledge:
  • Mangap
Other:
  • Mangap Mbula
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction
Nominal Syntax
Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
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
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
Polar Questions Question particle
Lexicon
Numeral Bases Pure vigesimal