1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Western Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Sundic

Nias

WALS coordinates: 1° N, 97° 45′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nias
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Nias Selatan
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural
    The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
    Indefinite Pronouns Mixed
    Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
    Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    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 Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
    Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions 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 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
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly