Afrikaans
WALS coordinates: 31° S, 22° E
spoken in South Africa
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| 36A | The Associative Plural | Unique periphrastic associative plural | Nominal Categories |
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| 41A | Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Two-way contrast | Nominal Categories |
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| 42A | Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives | Identical | Nominal Categories |
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| 47A | Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns | Identical | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 52A | Comitatives and Instrumentals | Identity | Nominal Categories |
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| 53A | Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 54A | Distributive Numerals | No distributive numerals | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 65A | Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | No grammatical marking | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 66A | The Past Tense | Present, no remoteness distinctions | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 67A | The Future Tense | No inflectional future | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 68A | The Perfect | From 'finish', 'already' | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 77A | Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | Indirect only | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 78A | Coding of Evidentiality | Separate particle | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 129A | Hand and Arm | Different | Lexicon |
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| 130A | Finger and Hand | Different | Lexicon |
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| 138A | Tea | Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te | Lexicon |
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