Siona

WALS coordinates: 0° 20′ N, 76° 15′ W

Alternative Names

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