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

Muna

WALS coordinates: 5° S, 122° 30′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Muna
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
      Rhythm Types Trochaic
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem
      The Associative Plural Unique periphrastic associative plural
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
      Epistemic Possibility Other
      Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      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
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
      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
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
      Comparative Constructions Conjoined
      Complex Sentences
      Relativization on Subjects Gap
      Relativization on Obliques Gap
      Purpose Clauses Balanced
      'When' Clauses Balanced
      Reason Clauses Balanced
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced