1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Binanderean

Orokaiva

WALS coordinates: 8° 49′ 48.00″ S, 148° 15′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Orokaiva
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
      Morphology
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural complete reduplication
      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 SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      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
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Negative Morphemes Variation between negative word and affix
      Polar Questions Mixture of previous two types