1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Mande
  3. Genus: Eastern Mande

Boko

WALS coordinates: 10° 30′ N, 3° 30′ E

spoken in Benin, Nigeria

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
Routledge:
Other:
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
54A Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Obligatory Nominal Categories
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60A Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated Nominal Syntax
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV 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 OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective 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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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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143C Optional Double Negation (Neg)VNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg 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 OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed postverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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144O Optional Double Negation in SOV languages S(Neg)OVNeg Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Word&OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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