Nadëb

WALS coordinates: 1° S, 66° 30′ W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking
Verbal Categories
The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + special negative
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	OSV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Ergative
Verbal Person Marking	Only the A argument
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero in all 3rd person forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions	Present
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Asymmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/Fin
Polar Questions	Interrogative intonation only