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

Tauya

WALS coordinates: 5° 45′ S, 145° 20′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
      Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different inflection
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
      Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Ordinal Numerals None
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
      Possessive Classification Two classes
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      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 Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
      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 Other
      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
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Antipassive Constructions No antipassive
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns