1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Puluwat

WALS coordinates: 7° 19′ 48.00″ N, 149° 19′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Micronesia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Prominence
      Rhythm Types Undetermined
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      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 Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Identical
      Finger and Hand Different