Ngad'a

WALS coordinates: 8° 49′ 48.00″ S, 121° E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	Prominence
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	No plural
Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Numeral Classifiers	Obligatory
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	No tense-aspect inflection
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Numeral and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word
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 Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
Polar Questions	Interrogative intonation only