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

Telefol

WALS coordinates: 5° S, 141° 45′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Locus of Marking in the Clause Head marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Head-marking
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      The Associative Plural Unique periphrastic associative plural
      Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
      Possessive Classification No possessive classification
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
      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 Mixed
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      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 Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns