1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Central Sudanic
  3. Genus: Moru-Ma'di

Avokaya

WALS coordinates: 4° 40′ N, 30° E

spoken in Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan

Alternative Names

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

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Verbal Categories
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense No inflectional future
The Perfect No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
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 Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
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