Nias

WALS coordinates: 1° N, 97° 45′ E

spoken in Indonesia

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural Nominal Categories
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36A The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one' Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Mixed Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Initial Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly Complex Sentences
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb NegVOS Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages NegVOS Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object None Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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