Piro

WALS coordinates: 11° S, 73° W

spoken in Peru

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations	Penultimate
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	No weight
Rhythm Types	Trochaic
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Definite Articles	Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Nominal Syntax
Noun Phrase Conjunction	'And' identical to 'with'
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality	Separate particle
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 Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Reciprocal Constructions	Distinct from reflexive
Polar Questions	Question particle
Predicative Adjectives	Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible
Comparative Constructions	Locational
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different