Siona

WALS coordinates: 0° 20′ N, 76° 15′ W

spoken in Ecuador, Colombia

Alternative Names

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

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants No laterals
Front Rounded Vowels None
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Numeral Classifiers Optional
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Predicative Possession Topic
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different