1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Warekena

WALS coordinates: 1° 30′ N, 67° 30′ W

spoken in Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Guarequena
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Warekena (Anamoim)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    The Associative Plural No associative plural
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
    Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Active
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P
    Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
    Passive Constructions Absent
    Negative Morphemes Double negation
    Polar Questions Interrogative word order
    Comparative Constructions Conjoined