Saramaccan
WALS coordinates: 4° 30′ N, 55° 30′ W
spoken in French Guiana, Suriname
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Nominal Categories | ||
| Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | |
| Person Marking on Adpositions | No person marking | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Mixed | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Neutral | |
| Verbal Person Marking | No person marking | |
| Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | No person marking | |
| Order of Person Markers on the Verb | A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb | |
| Passive Constructions | Absent | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories | 5.5 | |
| Number of Basic Colour Categories | 9-10 | |
| Green and Blue | Green/blue | |
| Red and Yellow | Red vs. yellow | |
