Marshallese
WALS coordinates: 7° 7′ N, 171° 3′ E
spoken in Marshall Islands
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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| Routledge: | |
| Other: | |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Morphology | ||
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Two-way contrast | |
| Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives | Identical | |
| Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Related to non-remote demonstratives | |
| Indefinite Pronouns | Generic-noun-based | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | |
| Ordinal Numerals | One-th, two-th, three-th | |
| Distributive Numerals | Marked by mixed or other strategies | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Identical | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| Tea | Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te | |
