1. Family: West Papuan
  2. Genus: North Halmaheran

Tidore

WALS coordinates: 0° 45′ N, 127° 30′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Number of Genders Three
      Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based
      Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular
      Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Numeral Classifiers Optional
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
      Adjectives without Nouns Marked by preceding word
      Action Nominal Constructions No action nominals
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      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 VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed
      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' Mixed
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit