1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Eastern Highlands

Siane

WALS coordinates: 6° 4′ 48.00″ S, 145° 11′ 60.00″ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive 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 Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Subordinating suffix
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology