Bemba
WALS coordinates: 10° S, 28° 15′ E
spoken in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Alternative Names
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 69A | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect prefixes | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 70A | The Morphological Imperative | Second singular and second plural | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 71A | The Prohibitive | Special imperative + special negative | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 72A | Imperative-Hortative Systems | Neither type of system | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 73A | The Optative | Inflectional optative absent | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 87A | Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | Word Order | comment | |
| 88A | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Mixed | Word Order | comment | |
| 89A | Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | Word Order | comment | |
| 92A | Position of Polar Question Particles | In either of two positions | Word Order | comment | |
| 93A | Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Not initial interrogative phrase | Word Order | comment | |
| 101A | Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Subject affixes on verb | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 116A | Polar Questions | Question particle | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 129A | Hand and Arm | Different | Lexicon |
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| 130A | Finger and Hand | Different | Lexicon |
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