Olo

WALS coordinates: 3° 25′ S, 142° E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal	No initial velar nasal
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
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	No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
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 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	Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Question particle