Panare

WALS coordinates: 6° 30′ N, 66° W

spoken in Venezuela

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants No laterals
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Moderately complex
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants No fricatives
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Nominal Categories
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
      Adjectives without Nouns Without marking