1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Central Sudanic
  3. Genus: Bongo-Bagirmi

Bagiro

WALS coordinates: 4° 19′ 48.00″ N, 20° 34′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Furu
Routledge:
  • Furu
Other:
  • Bagero
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
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 Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different