1. Family: Mosetenan
  2. Genus: Mosetenan

Mosetén

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

spoken in Bolivia

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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30A Number of Genders Two Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic and formal Nominal Categories
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, optional in inanimates Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Mixed Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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56A Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, with interrogative Nominal Categories
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60A Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Weakly differentiated Nominal Syntax
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61A Adjectives without Nouns Without marking Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Second position Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit Complex Sentences
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different 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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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb More than one position Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages More than one construction Word Order
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144E Multiple Negative Constructions in SVO Languages NegSVO/SNegVO Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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