1. Family: Khoisan
  2. Genus: Central Khoisan

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WALS coordinates: 18° 55′ S, 21° 55′ E

spoken in Botswana

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
      Other:
        ISO 639-3:

        Features

        Feature Value References
        Phonology
        Consonant Inventories Moderately small
        Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
        Consonant-Vowel Ratio High
        Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
        Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
        Uvular Consonants Uvular stops only
        Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only
        Lateral Consonants No laterals
        Front Rounded Vowels None
        Syllable Structure Moderately complex
        Tone Simple tone system
        Absence of Common Consonants All present
        Presence of Uncommon Consonants Clicks
        Nominal Categories
        Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
        Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person
        Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
        Verbal Categories
        Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
        Word Order
        Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
        Order of Subject and Verb SV
        Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
        Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
        Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
        Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
        Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
        Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
        Position of Polar Question Particles Final
        Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
        Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
        Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
        Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
        Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
        Simple Clauses
        Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
        Verbal Person Marking Only the P argument
        Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking
        Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
        Passive Constructions Present
        Polar Questions Question particle