Wik Munkan

WALS coordinates: 13° 55′ S, 141° 45′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
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 Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Different