Mentawai

WALS coordinates: 1° 30′ S, 99° E

spoken in Indonesia

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight Phonology
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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138A Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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