Sawu

WALS coordinates: 11° 30′ S, 121° 55′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders	None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking
Numeral Classifiers	Obligatory
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers	Formally different
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative	Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + special negative
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Neutral
Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions	Absent
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	Non-assignable
Complex Sentences
Purpose Clauses	Balanced
Utterance Complement Clauses	Balanced