1. Family: Chibchan
  2. Genus: Paya

Pech

WALS coordinates: 15° N, 85° 30′ W

spoken in Honduras

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Paya
Routledge:
  • Paya
Other:
  • Paya, Culmí dialect,
  • Paya (Culmí),
  • Paya
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately large
Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Moderately complex
Tone Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
Nominal Syntax
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
Passive Constructions Absent
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
Lexicon
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
Number of Basic Colour Categories 4.5-5.5
Green and Blue Green/blue
Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow