Both languages have SOV word order,[2] as well as three sets of alveolar affricate consonants.
[3] The Kulina people traditionally live in the states of Acre and Amazonas in Brazil and the Ucayali region in Peru.
[4] According to Dienst (2014), it forms a Madihá dialect continuum with Western Jamamadi and Deni.
[4] There are two noun classes and two genders and agreement on transitive verbs is determined by a number of complex factors, both syntactic and pragmatic.
[4] In transitive sentences, the verb agree with the object in gender and with the subject in person and number.