1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Cushitic
  3. Genus: Southern Cushitic

Burunge

WALS coordinates: 5° 20′ S, 36° E

spoken in Tanzania

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Burunge
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Definite Articles Definite affix
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 1st or 2nd person but not 3rd
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
      Adjectives without Nouns Marked by preceding word
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      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 No dominant order
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      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
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      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
      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
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position
      Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology