Baka (in Cameroon)

WALS coordinates: 2° 35′ N, 13° 35′ E

spoken in Cameroon

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Baka
Routledge:
Other:
  • Baka (Cameroon),
  • Babinga
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative 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 Different stem Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based 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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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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122A Relativization on Subjects Pronoun-retention Complex Sentences
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123A Relativization on Obliques Pronoun-retention Complex Sentences
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit Complex Sentences
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb VNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SVONeg Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb End, not immed postverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages SVONeg Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order No SNegVO Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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