Watam
WALS coordinates: 3° 55′ S, 144° 30′ E
spoken in Papua New Guinea
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | OV | |
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | |
| Position of Polar Question Particles | No question particle | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | OV and Postpositions | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | |
| Polar Questions | Interrogative verb morphology | |
