1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Maipure

WALS coordinates: 5° 30′ N, 67° 30′ W

spoken in Venezuela

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Postpositions
      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
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
      Polar Questions Question particle