1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Madang

Siroi

WALS coordinates: 5° 30′ S, 146° E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations Second
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      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 Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible