Afrikaans

WALS coordinates: 31° S, 22° E

spoken in South Africa

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Afrikaans
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Afrikaans (Standard)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    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