Piaroa
WALS coordinates: 5° N, 67° W
spoken in Venezuela
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Morphology | ||
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Weakly suffixing | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | |
| Definite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | |
| Indefinite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | |
| Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | |
| Ordinal Numerals | Various | |
| Numeral Classifiers | Optional | |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive prefixes | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | OV | |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | OV and NAdj | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
