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

Tobati

WALS coordinates: 2° 35′ S, 140° 40′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
51A Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb OSV 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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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 Noun-Demonstrative 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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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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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word 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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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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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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143C Optional Double Negation NegV/[V-Neg]/Neg[V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV 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 OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144Y The Position of Negative Morphemes in Object-Initial Languages OS(Neg)[V(-Neg)] Word Order
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