Yahgan
WALS coordinates: 55° S, 68° W
spoken in Chile
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Nominal Categories | ||
| Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | No possessive affixes | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| Imperative-Hortative Systems | Neither type of system | |
| 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 Adjective and Noun | Adjective-Noun | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Mixed | |
| 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 Adjective and Noun | OV and AdjN | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Mixed | |
| Comparative Constructions | Exceed | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
