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KML
Family:
Nilo-Saharan
Genus:
Berta
Berta
WALS coordinates: 10° 20′ N, 34° 40′ E
spoken in
Ethiopia
,
Sudan
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Berta
Ruhlen:
Berta
Routledge:
Other:
Wetawit
,
Barta
ISO 639-3:
wti
Features
Feature
Value
References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories
Average
Vowel Quality Inventories
Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio
Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
Other
Uvular Consonants
None
Glottalized Consonants
Ejectives only
Lateral Consonants
/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels
None
Syllable Structure
Moderately complex
Tone
Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants
All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants
'Th' sounds
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality
Plural suffix
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions
Pronouns only
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative
Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive
Special imperative + special negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems
Neither type of system
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
SVO
Order of Subject and Verb
SV
Order of Object and Verb
VO
Order of Adjective and Noun
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
Demonstrative suffix
Order of Numeral and Noun
Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun
Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles
Final
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
Accusative
Verbal Person Marking
Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb
A precedes P
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
Indirect-object construction
Passive Constructions
Present
Negative Morphemes
Negative affix
Polar Questions
Question particle