Berta

WALS coordinates: 10° 20′ N, 34° 40′ E

spoken in Ethiopia, Sudan

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Berta
Routledge:
Other:
  • Wetawit,
  • Barta
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Average Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone Simple tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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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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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative suffix Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel 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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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Present Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] 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 MorphNeg Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages S[Neg-V]O Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Prefix&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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