Huave (San Mateo del Mar)
Huavean family · North America
Huave (San Mateo del Mar) is an SVO language, like 488 of the 1,376 languages WALS codes for basic word order.
WALS lists no other language in the family it assigns to Huave (San Mateo del Mar).
The closest grammar profile to Huave (San Mateo del Mar) in the atlas belongs to Otomí (Mezquital), an Oto-Manguean language: the two agree on 35 of the 47 features both have coded.
Contrast Huave (San Mateo del Mar) with Otomí (Mezquital) or with any other language
Uncommon values
Values that fewer than one in ten of the coded languages share with Huave (San Mateo del Mar), rarest first.
- Voicing and Gaps in Plosive SystemsMissing /g/34 of 567
- Number of Basic Colour Categories9, between 9 and 10, or 10 categories8 of 119
- Presence of Uncommon Consonants'Th' sounds40 of 567
- ReduplicationFull reduplication only35 of 368
Closest profiles
Languages that share the most coded values with Huave (San Mateo del Mar); the count is out of the features both languages are coded for.
The rest of the profile
WALS codes Huave (San Mateo del Mar) for 61 of the 144 profile features used on this site. The remaining 56 are listed here, grouped by topic; within each group the value Huave (San Mateo del Mar) shares with the fewest languages comes first.
Sounds 11
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Tone | Simple tone system | 132 of 527 |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | Voicing contrast in plosives alone | 189 of 567 |
| Consonant Inventories | Average | 201 of 563 |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | 234 of 564 |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average vowel inventory (5-6) | 287 of 564 |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex syllable structure | 274 of 486 |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | 388 of 567 |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | 409 of 567 |
| Uvular Consonants | No uvulars | 470 of 567 |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | 503 of 567 |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | 525 of 562 |
Word structure 9
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection | TAM+agreement | 19 of 160 |
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Approximately equal amounts of suffixing and prefixing | 147 of 969 |
| Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology | Consistently head-marking | 47 of 236 |
| Locus of Marking in the Clause | P is head-marked | 71 of 236 |
| Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Possessor is head-marked | 78 of 236 |
| Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb | 4-5 categories per word | 52 of 145 |
| Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | No case | 75 of 162 |
| Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative | 125 of 165 |
| Zero Marking of A and P Arguments | Non-zero marking | 219 of 235 |
Nouns and pronouns 7
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural prefix | 126 of 1,066 |
| Asymmetrical Case-Marking | Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical case-marking | 53 of 261 |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive prefixes | 255 of 902 |
| Definite Articles | Definite word distinct from demonstrative | 216 of 620 |
| Position of Case Affixes | Neither case affixes nor adpositional clitics | 379 of 1,031 |
| Number of Cases | No morphological case-marking | 100 of 261 |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | 213 of 322 |
Noun phrases 3
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Possessive Classification | Two classes | 94 of 243 |
| Obligatory Possessive Inflection | No obligatorily possessed nouns | 201 of 244 |
| Number of Possessive Nouns | None reported | 233 of 243 |
Verbs: tense, mood, evidence 1
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Combination of tense-aspect strategies with none primary | 146 of 1,131 |
Word order 11
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Order of Subject and Verb | Subject follows verb (VS) | 194 of 1,496 |
| Position of Polar Question Particles | Question particle at beginning of sentence | 129 of 884 |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Modifying adjective precedes noun (AdjN) | 373 of 1,367 |
| Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Interrogative phrases obligatorily initial | 264 of 902 |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Noun-genitive (NGen) | 468 of 1,249 |
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Prepositions | 511 of 1,184 |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative word precedes noun (DemN) | 542 of 1,225 |
| Order of Object and Verb | Object follows verb (VO) | 705 of 1,518 |
| Order of Degree Word and Adjective | Degree word precedes adjective (DegAdj) | 227 of 481 |
| Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause | Initial subordinator word | 398 of 659 |
| Order of Relative Clause and Noun | Relative clause follows noun (NRel) | 579 of 824 |
Simple clauses 4
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation | In finiteness: Subtype A/Fin | 40 of 297 |
| Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | 502 of 1,157 |
| Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation | Symmetric and asymmetric standard negation: Type SymAsy | 130 of 297 |
| Polar Questions | Question particle | 585 of 955 |
Vocabulary 10
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Numeral Bases | Hybrid vigesimal-decimal | 22 of 196 |
| Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories | 6 categories | 29 of 119 |
| Green and Blue | Green and blue | 30 of 120 |
| M in Second Person Singular | m in second person singular | 78 of 230 |
| Hand and Arm | Different | 389 of 617 |
| M in First Person Singular | No m in first person singular | 177 of 230 |
| Red and Yellow | Red and yellow | 98 of 120 |
| N-M Pronouns | No N-M pronouns | 194 of 230 |
| M-T Pronouns | No M-T pronouns | 200 of 230 |
| Finger and Hand | Different | 521 of 593 |