Tiriyo

WALS coordinates: 3° 15′ N, 55° 45′ W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	3rd person only, but also non-singular
Person Marking on Adpositions	Pronouns only
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + normal negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems	Neither type of system
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	OVS
Order of Subject and Verb	VS
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	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
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Split
Verbal Person Marking	A or P 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
Passive Constructions	Absent
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Interrogative intonation only