1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Western Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Sundic

Urak Lawoi'

WALS coordinates: 8° N, 98° 19′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Thailand

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Urak Lawoi'
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
      Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
      Polar Questions Question particle