1. Family: Chibchan
  2. Genus: Talamanca

Teribe

WALS coordinates: 9° 20′ N, 82° 40′ W

spoken in Panama, Costa Rica

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Vowel Nasalization Contrast present
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
      Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      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 Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      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 OV and Postpositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Split
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in some 3sg forms
      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' Indirect-object construction
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Both construction types exist
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different
      Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5.5
      Number of Basic Colour Categories 7-7.5
      Green and Blue Green/blue
      Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow