Yareba

WALS coordinates: 9° 30′ S, 148° 30′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Missing /p/
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	No laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Simple
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/Fin
Polar Questions	Question particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Identical
Finger and Hand	Different