Family: Tucanoan
Genus: Tucanoan

Siona

WALS coordinates: 0° 20′ N, 76° 15′ W

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Siona
Ruhlen:	Siona
Routledge:	Piohé
Other:	Pioje-Sioni, Sioni, Pioje
ISO 639-3:	snn

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Moderately small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	Ejectives only	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	No laterals	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing	Morphology	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
55A	Numeral Classifiers	Optional	Nominal Categories	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes	Verbal Categories	comment
77A	Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Direct and indirect	Verbal Categories	comment
78A	Coding of Evidentiality	Verbal affix or clitic	Verbal Categories	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	SV	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	OV	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN	Word Order	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative affix	Simple Clauses	comment
117A	Predicative Possession	Topic	Simple Clauses	comment
129A	Hand and Arm	Identical	Lexicon	comment examples
130A	Finger and Hand	Different	Lexicon	comment examples
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	[V-Neg]	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	[V-Neg]	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment
144A	Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb	MorphNeg	Word Order	comment
144L	The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages	SV&OV&[V-Neg]	Word Order	comment