Sharanahua

WALS coordinates: 11° S, 70° W

spoken in Brazil, Peru

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sharanahua
Routledge:
  • Sharanawa
Other:
  • Sharanawa
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Polar Questions Question particle