1. Family: Barbacoan
  2. Genus: Barbacoan

Tsafiki

WALS coordinates: 1° S, 79° 19′ 48.00″ W

spoken in Ecuador

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Colorado
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Tsafiki
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
    Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    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 Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    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 RelN
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 4.5-5.5
    Green and Blue Green/blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow