1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Awju-Dumut

Wambon

WALS coordinates: 5° 30′ S, 140° 25′ E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      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
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not 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
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Question particle