Mixtec, Pinotepa Nacional

VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; 3 prepositions; no genitives; no articles; adjectives after noun heads, numerals before noun heads; relatives without noun heads; question words initial; maximum number of prefixes that can occur together on a word-3, no suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; affixes do not indicate case, person, number, or gender of subject or object; no ergativity; no passives or other voice phenomena; causatives; no comparatives; syllable patterns: V, CV; tonal.