Afrikaans
WALS coordinates: 31° S, 22° E
spoken in South Africa
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Nominal Categories | ||
| The Associative Plural | Unique periphrastic associative plural | |
| Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Two-way contrast | |
| Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives | Identical | |
| Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns | Identical | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Identity | |
| Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | |
| Distributive Numerals | No distributive numerals | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | No grammatical marking | |
| The Past Tense | Present, no remoteness distinctions | |
| The Future Tense | No inflectional future | |
| The Perfect | From 'finish', 'already' | |
| Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | Indirect only | |
| Coding of Evidentiality | Separate particle | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| Tea | Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te | |
