Salt-Yui

WALS coordinates: 6° 17′ S, 145° 2′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
23A Locus of Marking in the Clause No marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases No marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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58A Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent Nominal Syntax
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58B Number of Possessive Nouns None reported Nominal Syntax
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59A Possessive Classification Three to five classes Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Absent Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly Complex Sentences
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136A M-T Pronouns M-T pronouns, paradigmatic Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular No m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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