1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Ura

WALS coordinates: 18° 40′ S, 169° 5′ E

spoken in Vanuatu

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction
      Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
      Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P
      Passive Constructions Absent