Yaminahua

WALS coordinates: 8° S, 73° W

spoken in Brazil, Peru

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yaminahua
Routledge:
  • Yaminawa
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
    Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Lexicon
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 4.5-5.5
    Green and Blue Green/blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow