Woisika

WALS coordinates: 8° 15′ S, 124° 50′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/
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
Fixed Stress Locations	No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Not predictable
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	Lexical stress
Rhythm Types	No rhythmic stress
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	No dominant order
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
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix