Usan

WALS coordinates: 4° 50′ S, 145° 10′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants No laterals Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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10A Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone No tones Phonology
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14A Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Not predictable Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Lexical stress Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Head marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Head-marking Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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28A Case Syncretism No case marking Morphology
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29A Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking Syncretic Morphology
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30A Number of Genders None Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment No gender Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural Nominal Categories
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35A Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article Nominal Categories
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39A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns No inclusive/exclusive Nominal Categories
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40A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection No inclusive/exclusive Nominal Categories
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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Differentiated Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases Exclusively borderline case-marking Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals Various Nominal Categories
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63A Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with' Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Affixes on verbs Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Affixes on verbs Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect Tense Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion Singular-plural pairs, suppletion 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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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase 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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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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98A Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases Neutral Simple Clauses
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99A Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns Neutral Simple Clauses
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative Simple Clauses
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Absent Simple Clauses
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108A Antipassive Constructions No antipassive Simple Clauses
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108B Productivity of the Antipassive Construction no antipassive Simple Clauses
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109A Applicative Constructions Benefactive object; both bases Simple Clauses
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109B Other Roles of Applied Objects No other roles (= Only benefactive) Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin and A/NonReal Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession Topic Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Identical Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible Simple Clauses
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122A Relativization on Subjects Non-reduction Complex Sentences
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123A Relativization on Obliques Non-reduction Complex Sentences
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136A M-T Pronouns M-T pronouns, paradigmatic Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular No m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None 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 SONegV Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SONegV 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 Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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