1. Family: Tucanoan
  2. Genus: Tucanoan

Tuyuca

WALS coordinates: 0° 30′ N, 70° 5′ W

spoken in Brazil, Colombia

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tuyuca
Routledge:
  • Borá-Tuyuka
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
51A Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Obligatory Nominal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Part of the tense system Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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