Bongo

WALS coordinates: 7° 30′ N, 28° 30′ E

spoken in Sudan

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural clitic
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative before and after Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Internal subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	Other
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Question particle
Predicative Adjectives	Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Possible