Yei

WALS coordinates: 7° 55′ 12.00″ S, 140° 55′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yey
Routledge:
  • Yey
Other:
  • Jei
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
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 Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle