1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
  3. Genus: Nilotic

Anywa

WALS coordinates: 8° N, 33° 30′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

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

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    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 Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative suffix
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    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
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Complex Sentences
    Relativization on Subjects Gap
    Relativization on Obliques Pronoun-retention
    Purpose Clauses Balanced/deranked
    'When' Clauses Balanced
    Reason Clauses Balanced
    Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced