Sa'a

WALS coordinates: 9° 37′ 12.00″ S, 161° 26′ 60.00″ E

spoken in Solomon Islands

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sa'a
Routledge:
  • Malaita (South)
Other:
  • Ulawa,
  • Saa,
  • Apae'aa,
  • South Malaita
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
Word Order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun