1. Family: Tupian
  2. Genus: Tupi-Guaraní

Wayampi

WALS coordinates: 1° N, 52° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Oyampi
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Wayãpi,
    • Wayampi,
    • Oyampi,
    • Wayapi
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
    Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Double negation
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Complex Sentences
    Purpose Clauses Balanced/deranked
    'When' Clauses Balanced/deranked
    Reason Clauses Balanced/deranked
    Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different