Yessan-Mayo

WALS coordinates: 4° 10′ 12.00″ S, 142° 34′ 48.00″ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Locus of Marking in the Clause	Head marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	Head marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology	Head-marking
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	3rd person singular only
Person Marking on Adpositions	Pronouns only
Distributive Numerals	Marked by mixed or other strategies
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Absent
Possessive Classification	No possessive classification
Adjectives without Nouns	Without marking
Verbal Categories
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect	No grammatical marking
The Past Tense	Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense	Inflectional future exists
The Perfect	No perfect
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Neutral
Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions	Absent