1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Nehan

WALS coordinates: 4° 30′ S, 154° 12′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nehan
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Nissan
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    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 Prepositions
    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
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle