Afrikaans

WALS coordinates: 31° S, 22° E

spoken in South Africa

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
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
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals No distributive numerals Nominal Categories
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense No inflectional future Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect From 'finish', 'already' Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle Verbal Categories
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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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