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Resígaro

Arawakan family · Japura-Colombia branch · South America

Resígaro is an SOV language, like 564 of the 1,376 languages WALS codes for basic word order.

On Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions, WALS codes Resígaro as “Mixed, some interrogative phrases obligatorily initial, some not”, a value held by 23 of the 902 languages coded, Indonesian and Hausa among them.

The closest grammar profile to Resígaro in the atlas belongs to Evenki, an Altaic language: the two agree on 30 of the 42 features both have coded.

Of the 5 Arawakan languages profiled here, Resígaro departs most often from the family’s usual values.

Resígaro: order of head and dependent in 8 constructions← beforeafter →verbsubject80%13%Order of Subject and Verb: Subject precedes verb (SV). Of 1,496 languages coded, 1,192 put the subject before the verb and 194 after it.verbobject47%46%Order of Object and Verb: Object precedes verb (OV). Of 1,518 languages coded, 712 put the object before the verb and 705 after it.adpositionnoun phrase49%43%Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase: Postpositions. Of 1,184 languages coded, 577 put the noun phrase before the adposition and 511 after it.noungenitive55%37%Order of Genitive and Noun: Genitive-noun (GenN). Of 1,249 languages coded, 685 put the genitive before the noun and 468 after it.nounadjective27%64%Order of Adjective and Noun: Modifying adjective precedes noun (AdjN). Of 1,367 languages coded, 373 put the adjective before the noun and 879 after it.noundemonstrative45%48%Order of Demonstrative and Noun: Demonstrative word precedes noun (DemN). Of 1,225 languages coded, 551 put the demonstrative before the noun and 590 after it.nounnumeral42%53%Order of Numeral and Noun: Numeral precedes noun (NumN). Of 1,154 languages coded, 479 put the numeral before the noun and 608 after it.nounrelative clauserelative clauseMixed17%70%Order of Relative Clause and Noun: Mixed types of relative clause with none dominant. Of 824 languages coded, 141 put the relative clause before the noun and 579 after it.
The order Resígaro uses in 8 pairings of a head word and its dependent. Bars: how all languages coded for each pairing split, before or after.

Contrast Resígaro with Evenki or with any other language

Uncommon values

Values that fewer than one in ten of the coded languages share with Resígaro, rarest first.

Inside the Arawakan family

Resígaro matches the most frequent Arawakan value on 21 of the 37 features where at least three other members of the family are coded (57%).

Where Resígaro breaks with a clear majority of its relatives
FeatureResígaroMost relatives
ToneSimple tone systemNo tones (5 of 5)
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems/p t k b d g/Other (6 of 7)

Closest profiles

Languages that share the most coded values with Resígaro; the count is out of the features both languages are coded for.

The rest of the profile

WALS codes Resígaro for 43 of the 144 profile features used on this site. The remaining 37 are listed here, grouped by topic; within each group the value Resígaro shares with the fewest languages comes first.

Sounds 11

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Consonant InventoriesModerately large94 of 563
Lateral ConsonantsNo laterals95 of 567
Consonant-Vowel RatioModerately high102 of 564
Voicing in Plosives and FricativesVoicing contrast in plosives alone189 of 567
Vowel Quality InventoriesAverage vowel inventory (5-6)287 of 564
Syllable StructureModerately complex syllable structure274 of 486
Glottalized ConsonantsNo glottalized consonants409 of 567
Presence of Uncommon ConsonantsNone449 of 567
Uvular ConsonantsNo uvulars470 of 567
Absence of Common ConsonantsAll present503 of 567
Front Rounded VowelsNone525 of 562

Word structure 1

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional MorphologyApproximately equal amounts of suffixing and prefixing147 of 969

Nouns and pronouns 5

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Position of Case AffixesPostpositional clitics123 of 1,031
Position of Pronominal Possessive AffixesPossessive prefixes255 of 902
Definite ArticlesNeither definite nor indefinite article198 of 620
Indefinite ArticlesNeither indefinite nor definite198 of 534
Coding of Nominal PluralityPlural suffix513 of 1,066

Noun phrases 3

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Obligatory Possessive InflectionObligatorily possessed nouns exist43 of 244
Possessive ClassificationNo possessive classification125 of 243
Number of Possessive NounsNone reported233 of 243

Verbs: tense, mood, evidence 1

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Position of Tense-Aspect AffixesTense-aspect suffixes667 of 1,131

Word order 10

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and ClauseFinal subordinator word96 of 659
Position of Polar Question ParticlesQuestion particle at beginning of sentence129 of 884
Order of Adjective and NounModifying adjective precedes noun (AdjN)373 of 1,367
Order of Object, Oblique, and VerbMore than one order with none dominant167 of 500
Order of Numeral and NounNumeral precedes noun (NumN)479 of 1,154
Order of Demonstrative and NounDemonstrative word precedes noun (DemN)542 of 1,225
Order of Object and VerbObject precedes verb (OV)712 of 1,518
Order of Adposition and Noun PhrasePostpositions577 of 1,184
Order of Genitive and NounGenitive-noun (GenN)685 of 1,249
Order of Subject and VerbSubject precedes verb (SV)1,192 of 1,496

Simple clauses 2

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Negative MorphemesNegative particle502 of 1,157
Polar QuestionsQuestion particle585 of 955

Complex sentences 2

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Reason ClausesDeranked42 of 169
Purpose ClausesDeranked102 of 170

Vocabulary 2

FeatureValueLanguages sharing it
Hand and ArmDifferent389 of 617
Finger and HandDifferent521 of 593