1. Family: Chibchan
  2. Genus: Guaymi

Ngäbere

WALS coordinates: 8° 40′ 12.00″ N, 82° W

spoken in Panama

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Guaymi
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Guaymi,
    • Guaymí (Ngäbere)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
    The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
    The Future Tense No inflectional future
    The Perfect Other perfect
    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 OVX
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    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 OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Neutral
    Verbal Person Marking No person marking
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
    Passive Constructions Present
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative particle
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 7-7.5
    Green and Blue Green vs. blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns