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

Salt-Yui

WALS coordinates: 6° 16′ 48.00″ S, 145° 1′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
      Other:
      • Salt (Yui),
      • Iui,
      • Salt
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Locus of Marking in the Clause No marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases No marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
      Possessive Classification Three to five classes
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      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 Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      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 Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns M-T pronouns, paradigmatic
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns