1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Tawala

WALS coordinates: 10° 20′ S, 150° 40′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight Phonology
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17A Rhythm Types Trochaic Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing Morphology
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals Marked by mixed or other strategies Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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56A Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally similar, with interrogative 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 Two classes Nominal Syntax
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60A Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed Nominal Syntax
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61A Adjectives without Nouns Without marking Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes 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 No dominant order Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel 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 Both the A and P arguments 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 precedes P Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Absent Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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131A Numeral Bases Pure vigesimal Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None 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 Other Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages Other NegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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