Punu

WALS coordinates: 24° N, 107° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Punu
Routledge:
  • Bunu
Other:
  • Pu Nu,
  • Yao
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No adpositions
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 Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle