Onge

WALS coordinates: 10° 45′ N, 92° 25′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal	Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization	Contrast absent
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Definite Articles	Definite affix
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative	No second-person imperatives
Imperative-Hortative Systems	Neither type of system
The Optative	Inflectional optative absent
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative prefix
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions	Mixture of previous two types