1. Family: Yale
  2. Genus: Yale

Nagatman

WALS coordinates: 3° 45′ S, 141° 30′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nagatman
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Yade
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OXV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    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
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle