1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Eastern Highlands

Yagaria

WALS coordinates: 6° 20′ S, 145° 25′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
      Other:
      • Yagaria, Move dialect
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants Implosives only
      Lateral Consonants Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Complex
      Tone Simple tone system
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
      Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem
      Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Prefixes and suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
      The Past Tense No past tense
      The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
      The Perfect Other perfect
      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 Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Mixed
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
      Complex Sentences
      Relativization on Subjects Gap
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Identical
      Finger and Hand Identical