1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Berber

Berber (Chaouia)

WALS coordinates: 35° N, 7° E

spoken in Algeria

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Shawiya
Routledge:
  • Awras
Other:
  • Aurès (Ait Frah)
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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81B Languages with two Dominant Orders of Subject, Object, and Verb SVO or VSO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO 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 Noun-Adjective 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 Numeral-Noun Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None 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 More than one position 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 Immed preverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages More than one construction Word Order
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144E Multiple Negative Constructions in SVO Languages SNegVO/NegVSO Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages NegVSO/SNegVO Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object None Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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