1. Family: Mosetenan
  2. Genus: Mosetenan

Mosetén

WALS coordinates: 14° 45′ S, 67° 50′ W

spoken in Bolivia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chimane
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Moseteno,
    • Tsimane
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Morphology
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Number of Genders Two
    Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based
    Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic and formal
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, optional in inanimates
    Indefinite Pronouns Mixed
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, with interrogative
    Nominal Syntax
    Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Weakly differentiated
    Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    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 Other
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different