Tuvaluan

WALS coordinates: 8° 30′ S, 179° 10′ E

spoken in Tuvalu

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders	None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
The Associative Plural	Unique periphrastic associative plural
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	Identical
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Related to remote demonstratives
Indefinite Pronouns	Generic-noun-based
Number of Cases	No morphological case-marking
Asymmetrical Case-Marking	No case-marking
Distributive Numerals	Marked by preceding word
Numeral Classifiers	Optional
Nominal Syntax
Action Nominal Constructions	Mixed
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Differentiation
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative	Second singular
Situational Possibility	Verbal constructions
Epistemic Possibility	Other
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking	No overlap
Simple Clauses
Antipassive Constructions	No antipassive
Applicative Constructions	No applicative construction
Periphrastic Causative Constructions	Both
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation	Negative existential construction
Comparative Constructions	Locational
Complex Sentences
Purpose Clauses	Deranked
'When' Clauses	Balanced/deranked
Reason Clauses	Balanced/deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses	Balanced